ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,234, issued on April 15, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).

"Animal shed system with an air trap and a scrubber" was invented by Peter Feitsma (Maassluis, Netherlands), Fokke Stoel (Maassluis, Netherlands), Karel Van Den Berg (Maassluis, Netherlands) and Frank Gerard Regelink (Maassluis, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal shed system includes an animal shed having an animal shed floor with a first and a second surface spaced apart, such that the floor has a thickness different from zero, and multiple flow holes extending from the first to the second surface; a reservoir situated under the anim...