ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,344, issued on May 13, was assigned to DeLaval Holding AB (Tumba, Sweden).
"Milking arrangement for animal health condition indication" was invented by John M Christensen (Tumba, Sweden), Claus Dallerup Rasmussen (Tumba, Sweden) and Mikael Hojer Hansen (Tumba, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milking arrangement comprising a milking machine for milking an animal, wherein the milking arrangement comprises a control unit that is configured to obtain identity of the animal in connection with milking of the animal, obtain a reference point in time of a lactation cycle of the identified animal, determine to take at least one milk s...