ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,855, issued on May 20, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).
"Robot milking device" was invented by Jan Gerrit Jonathan Meijer (Delft, Netherlands), Leendert Kornelis Roelse (Ouddorp, Netherlands), Mario Henrique Voorsluys (Gouda, Netherlands) and Thanh Mung Lam (Dordrecht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot milking device for fully automatic milking includes milking means with a plurality of teat cups, a robot arm for moving the teat cups and connecting these to the teats, and provided with one teat cup holder for each teat cup, for removably placing the teat cup thereon in a rest state, a teat p...