US Patent Issued to HONDA MOTOR, NIDEC ELESYS on March 3 for "Maneuvering control devices for vessels, vessels" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,436, issued on March 3, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo) and NIDEC ELESYS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Maneuvering control devices for vessels, vessels" was invented by Daisuke Nojiri (Saitama, Japan), Takashi Hashizume (Saitama, Japan) and Yuichi Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maneuvering control device for vessels, and vessels are provided, which recognize docks with high accuracy. A maneuvering control device 1 for a vessel 500 includes: a vessel self-position data acquisition unit P that acquires position data on itself; a radar device R arranged on a hull, the radar device receiving a reflecte...