US Patent Issued to Furuno Electric on Nov. 3 for "Navigation assistance device and navigation assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,144, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Furuno Electric Co. Ltd. (NIshinomiya, Japan).

"Navigation assistance device and navigation assistance method" was invented by Kazuki Tsujimoto (Amagasaki, Japan), Tatsuya Sonobe (Ikeda, Japan), Hiroyuki Toda (Nishinomiya, Japan) and Kazushi Takemoto (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose is to highly accurately estimate information indicating a ship state up to the point of docking. A navigation assistance device includes a ship state detection sensor and processing circuitry. The ship state detection sensor detects a bow azimuth. The processing circuitry detects a quay l...