ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,286, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DeLaval Holding AB (Tumba, Sweden).

"System and computer-implemented method for controlling a rotary milking parlor arrangement and computer program" was invented by Tomasz Lesniak (Tumba, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit obtains a respective first state of a first operation parameter of each drive unit of a rotary milking parlor in a first mode of operation, and a second state of the first operation parameter during operation of the rotating platform in a second mode of operation. For each drive unit, the control unit compares the first and second states of the first operatio...