US Patent Issued to DeLaval Holding on Sept. 8 for "System and computer-implemented method for determining an offset for a milking tool in an automatic milking machine, computer program and non-volatile data carrier" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,575, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DeLaval Holding AB (Tumba, Sweden).

"System and computer-implemented method for determining an offset for a milking tool in an automatic milking machine, computer program and non-volatile data carrier" was invented by Anders Dueholm (Tumba, Sweden) and Andreas Eriksson (Tumba, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offset for a first milking tool in a tool carrier of an automatic milking machine is determined as a spatial vector between a tool reference position (TRP) and an estimated actual position (TAP) of the milking tool. A three-dimensional image data is registered that represents a tea...