US Patent Issued to MILKRITE | INTERPULS on July 14 for "Milk liner" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,794, issued on July 14, was assigned to MILKRITE | INTERPULS INC. (Johnson Creek, Wis.).

"Milk liner" was invented by Alessandro Ghirardini (Albinea, Italy), Andrea Garimberti (Albinea, Italy) and Stefano Ferri (Albinea, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milk liner of a milking apparatus has a resiliently deformable sleeve extending between a mouthpiece and an outlet pipe. The sleeve forms a cavity for receiving a teat of an animal to be milked. The sleeve incudes a first portion having a plurality of ribs, where the ribs extend longitudinally along and transversally outward from the first portion. The longitudinal extent of eac...