US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 9 for "Control device and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,562, issued on June 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device and control method" was invented by Yoshihisa Shinoda (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Isao Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yasutaka Nishimura (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device causes the first propulsion unit to generate a propulsion in the forward direction and the second propulsion unit to generate a propulsion in the backward direction, thereby turning the ship. The control device performs at least one of the first control, and the second control. The first control is configured by causing the second propulsion unit to s...