US Patent Issued to Navico on Sept. 1 for "User drawn zone for marine electronic devices" (New Zealander Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,327, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Navico Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).

"User drawn zone for marine electronic devices" was invented by Aska Hiu Mei Lai (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example devices, systems and methods are provided for operating a marine electronic device for a watercraft to determine a drawn zone based on a user input. Some example systems include a user interface comprising a touch screen, a processor and a memory having computer program code stored thereon. The marine electronic device is configured to cause one of a chart, a sonar image, or a radar image to be displayed on the touch screen an...