ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,920, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DeLaval Holding AB (Tumba, Sweden).
"Method and an arrangement for barn cleaning" was invented by Marek Brink (Tumba, Sweden), Jozef Furdak (Tumba, Sweden) and Bartlomiej Slusarczyk (Tumba, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a controller, a computer program and an arrangement for barn cleaning obtain, from a detection arrangement, information related to animal presence in an area in a barn and derive a measure of animal presence over time in the area in the barn based on the information. The method further includes controlling the operation of an automatic barn cleaning device base...