US Patent Issued to Navico on June 23 for "Systems and methods for generating routes for watercraft" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,268, issued on June 23, was assigned to Navico Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Systems and methods for generating routes for watercraft" was invented by Zachary E. Vincent (Claremore, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods are provided herein for generating paths for watercraft. Such systems include a memory and a processor, and the processor is configured to determine a set of condition parameters that each correspond to desired conditions for a potential navigation path, select at least one condition parameter from the set of condition parameters, and then determine and apply a constraint relaxation to the selected ...