ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,646, issued on March 31, was assigned to DeLaval Holding AB (Tumba, Sweden).
"Milking system comprising a milking robot" was invented by Andreas Eriksson (Tumba, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milking system that includes milking cups, a milking robot with a robot arm configured to attach each of the milking cups to a respective teat, a sensor that detects two adjacent teats, and a control arrangement communicatively connected to the sensor and the robot arm, where the control arrangement is configured to determine a distance between the two adjacent teats, select one of the two adjacent teats to commence attachment of a fi...