US Patent Issued to Sea Machines Robotics on May 5 for "Outboard marine engine with integrated perception sensor" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,513, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sea Machines Robotics Inc. (Boston).

"Outboard marine engine with integrated perception sensor" was invented by Michael Gordon Johnson (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard engine unit for a marine vessel may, in addition to including an engine and a thrust unit, be outfitted with one or more perception sensors configured to capture images of a field of view, where the field of view maintains a fixed spatial relationship with the thrust direction in which the thrust unit is providing thrust for the marine vessel. Further, the outboard engine unit may further include an orientat...