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

Claim 0:
1. A method of analyzing milk, the method using processes comprising:
obtaining a milk sample from a cow, the cow coupled to an inline milking system, by which milk is pumped in a milk line from the cow to a bulk tank for later distribution, in a manner wherein the milk sample is extracted in a discrete flow path of the inline milking system;
causing irradiation of the sample with light in a plurality of discrete spectral bands lying in a range from near-infrared through ultraviolet to cause production of a fluorescence response, wherein each discrete spectral band is selected on the basis of a fluorescence phenomenon of a corresponding analyte of interest;
receiving, from an analog to digital converter coupled to a set of light sensors, digitized spectral data that includes first data characterizing the fluorescence response; and
transmitting the digitized spectral data to a machine learning system, the 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 (a) determine concentration in the sample of a set of analytes selected from the group consisting of somatic cells, fat, protein, lactose, antibiotics, pathogens, hormones, and combinations thereof; (b) produce a concentration data output; and (c) predict a set of physiological parameters of the cow.