ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,220, issued on June 23, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).
"Navigation planning system and navigation planning method" was invented by Seiichi Uoshita (Nishinomiya city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation planning system configured to acquire a planned route for a movable body on a water. Further, movable body information and obstacle information an obstacle located in a surrounding area of the movable body is acquired. Subsequently, an evasion route, different from the planned route is acquired. Further, a collision risk indicating a risk of collision between the movable body and the obstac...