US Patent Issued to Brunswick on June 30 for "Proximity sensing system and method for a marine vessel" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,337, issued on June 30, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Proximity sensing system and method for a marine vessel" was invented by Matthew E. Derginer (Butte des Mort, Wis.), Aaron J. Ward (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Travis C. Malouf (Germantown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proximity sensor system on a marine vessel includes one or more proximity sensors configured to measure proximity of objects in a predefined area around the marine vessel and generate proximity measurements, and a memory storing a zone map, wherein the zone map divides the predefined area around the marine vessel into two or more zones. A control...