US Patent Issued to Hibble on Sept. 29 for "Routing of a seaborne vessel" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,949, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hibble Ltd. (London).

"Routing of a seaborne vessel" was invented by Adrian Hibbert (London), Joel Hipple (London), Manjunandan Sushant Vernekar (London) and Parineet Vernekar (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, methods, and instructions are described, relating to the routing of a seaborne vessel. Some examples receive information indicative of an energy consumption rate of the seaborne vessel, and modify departure/arrival times in dependence on the information. Some examples limit a route based on a bearing range to reduce meandering and U-turns, to reduce energy consu...