US Patent Issued to LELY PATENT on June 17 for "Milking device with a milk filter" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,120, issued on June 17, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).

"Milking device with a milk filter" was invented by Bart van Eeden (Maassluis, Netherlands), Malouk Maria Franck (Maassluis, Netherlands) and Gerard Mostert (Maassluis, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milking device for milking a dairy animal is provided with milking mechanism, a control system, a milk pipeline for transporting the milk from the milking mechanism to a milk tank, a milk filter and a cleaning device. The cleaning device includes at least one cleaning fluid holder, a heating device for heating cleaning fluid in the cleaning f...