ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,559, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Ship body control device, ship body control system, ship body control method and ship body control program" was invented by Tomoyasu Takahashi (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ship body control device (20, 20A) includes an acquiring part (40) and an estimating part (200, 200A). The acquiring part (40) acquires a ship body state and disturbance information of a ship body (80) on a water surface. The estimating part (200, 200A) generates a first estimated value (Deltate0, Deltate0a, Deltate0b) of a trim rudder angle (Thetatr) to disturbanc...