US Patent Issued to Brunswick on May 13 for "Navigation control system and method for a marine vessel" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,769, issued on May 13, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Navigation control system and method for a marine vessel" was invented by Jason S. Arbuckle (Horicon, Wis.) and Kyle K. Karnick (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling propulsion of a marine vessel includes receiving a lock control instruction designating two locked axes and one unlocked axis out of a surge access, a sway access, and a yaw access. Upon receiving the lock instruction, a current GPS position and a current heading of the marine vessel are sensed and a movement track is defined for the unlocked axis based on the cu...