ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,389, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).
"Closed-loop automatic control system for ship speed and method thereof" was invented by Chunchang Zhang (Shanghai), Guichen Zhang (Shanghai), Mengwei Chen (Shanghai) and Taishan Chen (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closed-loop automatic control system for ship speed and a method are provided, including the following steps: obtaining feedback information through a detection feedback module, and generating a final effective main engine speed order nE* through an outer-loop control module; through the middle-loop control module, the main engine sp...