US Patent Issued to LELY PATENT on May 19 for "Milk sampling device, and milking system therewith" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,788, issued on May 19, was assigned to LELY PATENT N.V. (Maassluis, Netherlands).

"Milk sampling device, and milking system therewith" was invented by Jacobus Petrus Maria Dessing (Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands), Michiel Adriaan Van Dorp (Hazerswoude-Rijndijk, Netherlands), Pieter Gerlof De Groot (Giessenburg, Netherlands) and Nicolaas Maria Jozef Stoffels (Wassenaar, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling device for taking a representative milk sample from a milking device. The milking device includes a milking means, a milk jar, a milk hose, a milk tank, a milk line, a milk pump for pumping the milk, a milk meter for de...