US Patent Issued to DAIRYMASTER on March 31 for "Method and apparatus for operating a rotary milking platform to maximise the number of animals milked per unit time and a rotary milking platform" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,654, issued on March 31, was assigned to DAIRYMASTER (County Kerry, Ireland).

"Method and apparatus for operating a rotary milking platform to maximise the number of animals milked per unit time and a rotary milking platform" was invented by John Gerard Daly (Kerry, Ireland), Edmond Patrick Harty Jr. (Kerry, Ireland) and Shane Joseph Burns (County Sligo, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus (3) for operating a rotary milking platform (1) to maximise the number of animals milked per unit time. The milking platform (1) is rotated about a central vertical axis (4) by a variable speed motor (6), and comprises a ...