ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,951, issued on March 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI SHIPBUILDING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Safety system, land system, on-ship system, and control method" was invented by Yusuke Kuchiki (Yokohama, Japan), Shingen Takeda (Yokohama, Japan) and Toshiyuki Komiya (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety system according to the present invention includes an on-ship system which is provided on a ship and a land system which is provided on land. The on-ship system and the land system each obtain, from a safety detection device and a safety maintenance device which are provided on a ship, data which has been detected by th...