US Patent Issued to Furuno Electric on Aug. 25 for "Nautical drift managing device and nautical drift managing method" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,324, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Furuno Electric Co. Ltd. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Nautical drift managing device and nautical drift managing method" was invented by Eric R. Kunz (Camas, Wash.) and Iker Pryszo (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nautical drift managing device is provided. The nautical drift managing device includes an input circuitry to receive destination position information for a watercraft. Further, the nautical drift managing device includes a sensor circuitry to obtain external force information associated with the watercraft. Furthermore, the nautical drift managing device includes processin...