ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,280, issued on May 19, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).
"Systems and methods for predicting and mitigating magnetic and location sensor errors using a vision system on a marine vessel" was invented by Trevor George (Savoy, Ill.), Brandon L. Tate (Walnut Hill, Ill.) and Phillip M. Renkert (Urbana, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for mitigating navigation sensor errors using a vision system on a marine vessel is provided, the system comprising: a navigation sensor; a camera configured to be mounted to the marine vessel with an associated field of view of an environment; and a processor configured to: identif...