US Patent Issued to DAIRYMASTER on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus for determining the identity of an animal of a herd of animals" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,299, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DAIRYMASTER (County Kerry, Ireland).

"Method and apparatus for determining the identity of an animal of a herd of animals" was invented by Edmond Patrick Harty Jr. (County Kerry, Ireland), Shane Joseph Burns (County Sligo, Ireland), Alan Hanley (County Limerick, Ireland), John Gerard Daly (County Kerry, Ireland), Liam Mullane (County Limerick, Ireland), Niall O'Mahony (County Kerry, Ireland), Joseph Walsh (County Kerry, Ireland) and Daniel Riordan (County Kerry, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary milking platform (3) comprises a plurality of stalls (5) and an RFID animal identifyin...