US Patent Issued to Arc Boat on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for steering a watercraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,155, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Arc Boat Co. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for steering a watercraft" was invented by Robert Binkowski (San Francisco), Hsin Yu Wei (San Francisco) and Andrew Phillips (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of steering a watercraft. The method comprising determining an estimated speed, an estimated yaw, and an estimated yaw rate of change of a watercraft based on a first output from a GPS and a second output from an inertial measurement unit; adjusting a position of a rudder coupled to a hull of the watercraft based on a position of a steering wheel; determi...