US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on May 20 for "Ship monitoring system, ship monitoring method, and information processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,599, issued on May 20, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Ship monitoring system, ship monitoring method, and information processing device" was invented by Kazuya Nakagawa (Amagasaki, Japan) and Yuichi Takebayashi (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a ship monitoring system capable of visualizing a risk of a collision or an approach in a width direction perpendicular to a heading of another ship. The ship monitoring system includes a first data generator, a second data generator, and processing circuitry. The first data generator generates first ship data in...