US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 14 for "Automatic watercraft piloting system and automatic watercraft piloting assist method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,046, issued on April 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Automatic watercraft piloting system and automatic watercraft piloting assist method" was invented by Yosuke Yamamoto (Saitama, Japan), Daisuke Nojiri (Saitama, Japan) and Yuichi Kobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In automatic watercraft piloting system, a control unit computes a plurality of first routes from a current position to a target position that avoid any obstacle that may exist between the current position and the target position, computes a second route for each of the first routes that the watercraft is predicted to travel when...