US Patent Issued to LELY PATENT on Feb. 10 for "Milking system with central utility system" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,696, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).

"Milking system with central utility system" was invented by Dirk Kraaij (Delft, Netherlands) and Gerard Mostert (Schipluiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milking system includes two or more milking devices for extracting a milking from a dairy animal; a central utility system connected with each milking device in the milking system, and a cleaning unit for cleaning the milking devices and milk-carrying parts of the central utility system. The cleaning unit includes a fluid transporting line for transport of cleaning fluid where each o...