US Patent Issued to Brunswick on May 5 for "Method and system for monitoring wind and current around a marine vessel" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,503, issued on May 5, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Method and system for monitoring wind and current around a marine vessel" was invented by Jared D. Kalnins (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring an environment around a marine vessel includes receiving a plurality of air speed measurements and/or a plurality of water speed measurements measured by at least one environmental speed sensor on the marine vessel when the marine vessel is heading in a plurality of different heading directions. A plurality of wind velocities and/or a plurality of current velocities are determined based on the...