ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,031, issued on April 7, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Wake vision system and method" was invented by Trevor George (Savoy, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wake detection system for a marine vessel comprises a stereovision system and a control system. The stereovision system includes at least two cameras and is configured to image a water surface behind the marine vessel. The control system is configured to receive image data from the stereovision system, including at least one image of the water surface behind the marine vessel, identify at least one wave on the water surface in the at least one image, then ...