US Patent Issued to Garmin International on May 19 for "Autonomous marine autopilot system" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,049, issued on May 19, was assigned to Garmin International Inc. (Olathe, Kan.).

"Autonomous marine autopilot system" was invented by Ravinder Singh (Olathe, Kan.), Christopher J. Helms (Olathe, Kan.) and Michael S. Ellebrecht (Olathe, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine autopilot system configured to control a marine vessel through a marine environment is disclosed herein. The marine autopilot system may obtain data of the marine environment from charts and community shared data and generate a path from a first location to a destination location in the marine environment. The marine autopilot system may control the marine ve...