US Patent Issued to ARC BOAT on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for station keeping with watercraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,395, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ARC BOAT COMPANY (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for station keeping with watercraft" was invented by Andrew Phillips (San Francisco) and Amogh Dixit (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a target position for a watercraft; determining a current position and a current heading axis of the watercraft; and determining a position error based on the difference between the target position and the current position. A position error axis is defined between the target position and the current position. The method further includes determining a heading error based ...