ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,707, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to VALLI S.R.L. (Forli, Italy).
"Laying nest provided with an improved ejection system" was invented by Fausto Martoni (Forli, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laying nest provided with an ejection system with a particularly simple structure and operation comprises a nest floor that can rotate in two opposite directions, to get more inclined towards a collection area or towards a coop arranged on the nest side opposite to the collection area. The floor is rotatable about a pair of pivot pins arranged aligned to each other and adjacent to the coop, and each of the pivot pins is mounted slidab...