US Patent Issued to Technologies Holdings on July 21 for "Air fork for milking cluster" (Wisconsin, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,290, issued on July 21, was assigned to Technologies Holdings Corp. (Houston).

"Air fork for milking cluster" was invented by Gregory S. Bardosy (Madison, Wis.), Anthony P. Spaeth (Boyd, Wis.) and Steve Pretz (Westwood Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air fork for directing vacuum gas flow in a milking cluster includes two main tubes that each terminate in a respective one of two air divider tubes. The air divider tubes are each configured to connect the vacuum gas flow diagonally across the udder, with a first air divider tube connecting vacuum pulsation of the front right teat and the rear left teat together, and a sec...