ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,429, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).
"Milking system with detection system" was invented by Pieter Gerlof De Groot (Maassluis, Netherlands) and Abram Christiaan Knip (Maassluis, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milking system with a milking device, a milking control, a milk line in fluid connection with the milking device, and a sampling and analysis device to take a sample of the milk from the milk line and to analyse milk from the sample are disclosed. The milking control is arranged to control the milking device on the basis of the analysis. The sampling and analysis device...