US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Dec. 16 for "Navigation control system and method for a marine vessel" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,141, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Navigation control system and method for a marine vessel" was invented by Rakshith Sudhir Singh (Peoria, Ill.), Brandon L. Tate (Walnut Hill, Ill.), Trevor George (Savoy, Ill.) and Eric S. Mueller (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation system for a marine vessel comprises a ranging sensor and a control system. The ranging sensor is arranged to image an area around the marine vessel, such as an area forward of the bow, and generate ranging data. The control system is configured to receive ranging data from the ranging sensor, detect a nav...