ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,852, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Ship steering control device" was invented by Tomohiko Miyaki (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ship steering control device for controlling steering of a ship. The ship includes a ship propulsion device configured to generate a propulsion force of the ship and a manual operation unit for manually operating the ship propulsion device. The ship steering control device includes a manual steering controller, an automatic steering controller, an abnormality detection unit, and a steering mode switching unit. The manual steering controller i...