US Patent Issued to SUZUKI MOTOR on April 21 for "Steering system for ship and control parameter setting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,291, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Steering system for ship and control parameter setting method" was invented by Satoru Iwata (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yuzuru Ito (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering system (1) is employed in a ship to which left and right propulsors (2L, 2R) are attached. The steering system (1) includes a first input device (11) configured to receive an input of any one of a forward thrust parameter and a reverse thrust parameter of the propulsors, a second input device (15) configured to receive an input of the other of the forward thrust paramete...