US Patent Issued to Raymarine UK on June 30 for "Passage planning and navigation systems and methods" (British, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,335, issued on June 30, was assigned to Raymarine UK Ltd. (Fareham, Great Britain).

"Passage planning and navigation systems and methods" was invented by Mark Johnson (Vannes, France), William M. Sayer (Hampshire, Great Britain), Mark Rivers (Winchester, Great Britain), Brian L. Jensen (Madison, Wis.), Marcel Tremblay (Goleta, Calif.) and Christopher D. Gatland (Fareham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide passage planning for a mobile structure. A passage planning system includes a logic device configured to communicate with a user interface associated with the mob...