ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,653, issued on July 8, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).
"System and method for milking a group of dairy animals" was invented by Karel Van Den Berg (Maassluis, Netherlands), Paulus Jacobus Maria Van Adrichem (Maassluis, Netherlands) and Dik-Jan Wisse (Maassluis, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for milking a group of milking animals includes a stationary animal accommodation space having a fixed floor, a plurality of milking stations, and an animal-free space which is closed for the milking animals in the accommodation space and extends adjacent to the milking stations. The system also incl...