Patents by Inventor Meindert Graveland

Meindert Graveland has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of and system for supplying feed
    Patent number: 8397673
    Abstract: Method of supplying feed to animals with the aid of a group of feed stations which are accessible to those animals, wherein the feed stations, following the identification of an animal, supply feed to that animal according to a feed program for that animal adjusted to that individual animal and taking into account data relating to earlier feed supplies to that animal, wherein data relating to a feed supply to an animal are made available to each feed station via data connections, and wherein, in the event of failure of the data connection for at least one of the feed stations, at least one of the feed stations is operated to switch over to a safety feed program to reduce the feed supply to an animal identified at that feed station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Lely Patent N.V.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Johannes Adrianus Van Lier, Arie Van Der Wouden, Leendert Kool, Meindert Graveland
  • METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING FEED
    Publication number: 20110168099
    Abstract: Method of supplying feed to animals with the aid of a group of feed stations which are accessible to those animals, wherein the feed stations, following the identification of an animal, supply feed to that animal according to a feed program for that animal adjusted to that individual animal and taking into account data relating to earlier feed supplies to that animal, wherein data relating to a feed supply to an animal are made available to each feed station via data connections, and wherein, in the event of failure of the data connection for at least one of the feed stations, at least one of the feed stations is operated to switch over to a safety feed program to reduce the feed supply to an animal identified at that feed station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Johannes Adrianus VAN LIER, Arie VAN DER WOUDEN, Leendert KOOL, Meindert GRAVELAND