ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,724, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DeLaval Holding AB (Tumba, Sweden).

"Method and arrangement for barn cleaning" was invented by Marek Brink (Tumba, Sweden), Jozef Furdak (Tumba, Sweden), Bartlomiej Jaklik (Tumba, Sweden) and Bartlomiej Slusarczyk (Tumba, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, controller, computer program and arrangement for barn cleaning obtaining information from one or more cameras mounted to capture images of an area of operation of an automatic barn cleaning device and identifying at least one location in said area of operation being subjected to manure, based on the obtained information. The method...