ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,506, issued on May 5, was assigned to EXAIL (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).
"Device and method for autonomously controlling a boat" was invented by Sebastien Grall (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This relates to a control device for a boat, including members which provides steering, propulsion and safety functions for the boat. The control device includes: sensors; -a central processing unit; at least two peripheral modules which are associated with the member and which each include an interface for receiving data from the sensors; an interface for controlling the member associated therewith; a processing...