US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on March 31 for "Navigation planning system and navigation planning method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,152, issued on March 31, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Navigation planning system and navigation planning method" was invented by Seiichi Uoshita (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation planning system of the present invention comprises a processing circuitry configured to acquire planned route information indicating a movable body on the water; acquire movable body information including a position, a moving direction, and a speed of the movable body; acquire obstacle information including each of a position, a moving direction, and a speed of a plurality of obstacles located...