US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce Solutions on March 31 for "Control device for controlling a watercraft, watercraft having such a control device, and method for controlling a watercraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,843, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Control device for controlling a watercraft, watercraft having such a control device, and method for controlling a watercraft" was invented by Thomas Kottke (Ehningen, Germany) and Rudolf Hoff (Weingarten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling a watercraft includes a position detection module and a positioning module. The position detection module is configured to detect a current position of the watercraft. The positioning module is configured to determine a new position for the watercraft within a deli...