US Patent Issued to Raymarine UK on July 21 for "Assisted navigation systems and methods" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,397, issued on July 21, was assigned to Raymarine UK Ltd. (Fareham, Great Britain).

"Assisted navigation systems and methods" was invented by Mark Johnson (Vannes Cedex, France), Mark C. Rivers (Winchester, Great Britain) and Weronika Nowicka (Fareham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide assisted navigation based on surrounding threats. In one example, an assisted navigation system receives data from a plurality of sensors associated with a mobile structure. The assisted navigation system determines a plurality of navigational hazards disposed within a monitored are...