US Patent Issued to LELY PATENT on July 29 for "Method for managing a herd, and milking device for performing the method" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,563, issued on July 29, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).

"Method for managing a herd, and milking device for performing the method" 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 method for milking and managing a herd of dairy animals by at least attributing an insemination suitability status, the method includes, for each dairy animal, milking the dairy animal by means of a milking device, with a controller. By means of the controller, using a measuring device, determining at least one parameter value PVi related...