ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,665, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).
"Method and robot milking device for milking a dairy animal" was invented by Adolf Jan Van Der Kamp (Kampen, Netherlands) and Pieter Neelus Kool (Berkenwoude, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot milking device includes a milking site, an animal identification device, robot milking means, a feeding device for providing feed to the dairy animal during the milking based on a feed allowance, and a controller for the robot milking system and for updating feed allowance. The method includes selecting a future time period, determining a free ca...