US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Feb. 10 for "Marine navigation systems, methods, and user interfaces" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,376, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine navigation systems, methods, and user interfaces" was invented by Brandon L. Tate (Walnut Hill, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling navigation for a marine vessel includes receiving a user input via a user input device identifying a path direction with respect to a vessel location of the marine vessel, defining a new navigation pathway through a marine navigation area based on the path direction indicated by the user input, wherein the new navigation pathway includes a set of geographical locations between the vessel location and ...