ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,226, issued on June 23, was assigned to Navico Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).
"Remote trolling motor steering control" was invented by Spencer Buchanan (Auckland, New Zealand) and Paul Robert Bailey (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a handheld device for controlling a watercraft motor is provided. The method comprises determining whether the handheld device is operating in an anchor mode or a heading hold mode; receiving movement data when the joystick is in a non-neutral position that includes a direction of movement; generating steering command(s), with a steering command of the steering command(s) b...