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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2016
Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Henk Hofman, Lemmer, NL;
Cor de Ruijter, Staphorst, NL;
Menno Koekoek, Dronten, NL;
Peter Willem van der Sluis, IJsselmuiden, NL;
Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system includes a robotic arm positioned in an equipment area of a milking box that includes a stall portion housing a dairy livestock with four teats. The robotic arm retrieves a cup, and for a plurality of teats of the dairy livestock, the robotic arm attaches the cup to a teat, detaches the cup from the teat, and maintains the cup within the stall portion of the milking box from the time that the cup is attached to a first teat of the dairy livestock through the time that the cup is attached to a last teat of the dairy livestock. The cup is retracted into the equipment portion of the milking box after it is detached from the last teat of the dairy livestock.