US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for detecting an on-plane state of a marine vessel" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,965, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for detecting an on-plane state of a marine vessel" was invented by William P. O'Brien (Eden, Wis.) and Ryan M. Trost (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a marine vessel includes a pitch sensor configured to output pitch measurements indicative of a vessel pitch angle of the marine vessel and a controller. The controller is configured to detect that the marine vessel is in a launch state based on a speed parameter and/or the pitch measurements, detect a maximum vessel pitch based on the pitch measurements, ...