ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,892, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).
"Milking system with a positioning aid" was invented by Martinus Cornelis Van Der Meer (Hazerswoude, Netherlands) and Han Johannes Marinus Peeters (Halsteren, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot milking system, including: at least one milking box; milking apparatus; a robot arm configured to connect the milking apparatus to a milking animal; an animal recognition device configured to automatically determine an identity of the milking animal; a control system configured to control the robot milking system; and a positioning aid configured t...