ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,513, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dometic Marine Canada Inc. (Richmond, Canada).
"System for controlling a marine vessel using a single operator command" was invented by Ray Wong (Richmond, Canada), Davor Baros (Vancouver, Canada), Dave Higgs (Vancouver, Canada) and Anson Chin Pang Chan (Richmond, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a marine vessel comprises an input device for inputting an operator command, a sensor which senses and signals an engine function variable or a vessel dynamic variable, and a first structural element and a second structural element. The first structural element and the sec...