US Patent Issued to SUZUKI MOTOR on Nov. 3 for "Berthing assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,390, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Berthing assistance device" was invented by Yuki Nakaaki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yuki Tanaka (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Keiji Imanaga (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A berthing assistance device for assisting berthing of a ship to which a propulsion unit is attached. The berthing assistance device includes a controller configured to control the propulsion unit, based on an operation amount from an operation device, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a ship condition, the ship condition including a current ship position and a current bow dire...