Patent ID: 11944730
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 11:
12. A breast pump comprising:
a breast shield for receiving a breast of a user therein;
a pressure source in air-ducting connection to the breast shield;
a processor; and
a tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
generate cycles of alternating increased pressure and reduced pressure in the breast shield to extract milk from the breast of the user;
measure an elongation of a nipple of the breast received in the breast shield for a specific pressure in the breast shield during a milk extraction session, and
determine an estimated breast emptiness of the breast of the user, a presence or an absence of a milk ejection reflex, or the estimated breast emptiness of the breast of the user and the presence or the absence of the milk ejection reflex of the breast of the user as a status of the breast of the user based on the elongation of the nipple of the breast of the user.