US Patent Issued to LELY PATENT on Jan. 13 for "Milking device including tube-shaped filter component" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,812, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).

"Milking device including tube-shaped filter component" was invented by Bart Van Eeden (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Malouk Maria Franck (Leiden, Netherlands) and Gerard Mostert (Schipluiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milking device is provided with milking means, a control unit, a milk line for transporting the milk from the milking means to a milk tank, a milk filter for filtering the milk passing through the milk line, and a cleaning device for the milk filter with cleaning liquid. The milk filter includes a housing which surrounds a ...