ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,326, issued on May 27, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).
"Method and milking device for milking a dairy animal" was invented by Peter Leonardus Hendricus Jennen (Waddinxveen, Netherlands) and Pieter Gerlof De Groot (Giessenburg, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for milking a dairy animal using a milking device with a measuring device for a milk parameter, the method including identifying the dairy animal, determining a milking interval, attaching milking cups to the dairy animal, calculating, according to a first formula, an expected value for the milk parameter, milking the dairy animal, a...