US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on June 23 for "Ship control device, a ship control method, and a ship control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,230, issued on June 23, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Ship control device, a ship control method, and a ship control program" was invented by Hideki Ueno (Takarazuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ship control device is provided with an input unit capable of acquiring operation inputs from each of a first operator used in a low-speed navigation control mode and a second operator used in a high speed navigation control mode, and a control unit for determining a target direction and a throttle opening in the direction control at the time of navigation based on the operation inputs acquired in th...