US Patent Issued to DeLaval Holding on June 10 for "Method and control arrangement for controlling an automated crowd gate" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,419, issued on June 10, was assigned to DeLaval Holding AB (Tumba, Sweden).

"Method and control arrangement for controlling an automated crowd gate" was invented by Ilka Klaas (Tumba, Sweden) and Anders Umegard (Tumba, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and control arrangement for controlling an automated crowd gate that operates to form a side of a holding area and moves in relation to an entrance of a destination in order to cause animals located in the holding area to move towards the destination, wherein location data defining individual positions of one or more animals located in the holding area is obtained from a r...