US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Feb. 24 for "System and method for controlling docking for a marine vessel" (Michigan, Florida, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,212, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"System and method for controlling docking for a marine vessel" was invented by Raissa Carvalho-Ruehle (Charlotte, Mich.), Anna R. Chi (Lisle, Ill.) and Lauren A. McLeod (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling docking for a marine vessel includes imaging an area around a marine vessel with an imaging system to generate image data, generating a display of a docking area on a user interface based on the image data, receiving a user input selecting a location on the display of the docking area, identifying a selected docking locati...