Patent ID: 11933727
Assignee: LABBY INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. An inline milking system for analyzing a milk sample, the system comprising:
an in-line receptacle configured to receive the milk sample from a discrete flow path of the inline milking system, by which milk is pumped in a milk line from the cow to a bulk tank for later distribution;
a light source configured to irradiate the sample in a plurality of discrete spectral bands, lying in a range from near-infrared through ultraviolet and selected on the basis of a fluorescence phenomenon of an analyte of interest to cause production of a fluorescence response;
a light detector and an analog-to-digital converter coupled thereto providing a digitized spectral data output that includes first data characterizing the fluorescence response; and
a machine learning system coupled to the digitized spectral data output, the machine learning system trained on data selected from the group consisting of cow health history, milk composition history, herd data, farm history, milk spectra history, and combinations thereof to fa) determine concentration in the sample of a set of analytes selected from the group consisting of somatic cells, fat, protein, lactose, antibiotics, hormones, and combinations thereof; (b) produce a concentration data output; and (c) predict a set of physiological parameters of the cow;
wherein each one of the discrete spectral bands has been selected on the basis of a fluorescence phenomenon of a corresponding one of the analytes.