US Patent Issued to LELY PATENT on March 24 for "Milking system with sensor device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,084, issued on March 24, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).

"Milking system with sensor device" was invented by Bas Schoutens (Delft, Netherlands) and Mattheus Jacob De Hullu (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milking system for milking a milking animal includes a teatcup for fitting on a teat of the milking animal, and a measuring chamber connected directly and rigidly thereto. The teatcup has a longitudinal direction, and a first milk outflow orifice for milk outflow parallel to the longitudinal direction. The measuring chamber has a peripheral wall, a milk inlet in fluid communication the...