ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,794, issued on July 22, was assigned to Willow Innovations Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Breast pump system with controller" was invented by Joshua Makower (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), John Y. Chang (Los Altos, Calif.), Brendan M. Donohoe (Fairfax, Calif.), Sharon Lam Wang (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Michele Torosis (Los Altos, Calif.) and Earl Bright II (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for pumping milk from a breast, wherein the milk is expressed from the breast under suction and the milk is expulsed from a pumping mechanism to a collection container under positive pressure. In one approach, a brea...