ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,431, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).
"Method for robotic milking and robotic milking device" was invented by Mario Henrique Voorsluys (Maassluis, Netherlands), Thanh Mung Lam (Maassluis, Netherlands) and Jan Gerrit Jonathan Meijer (Maassluis, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for milking a dairy animal by means of a robotic milking device containing milking cups, a teat position-determining device, a robot arm in a rest position that carries all milking cups and attaches these to the teats, and a control unit. The dairy animal is milked at an intended milking frequency. ...