US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 5 for "Control device and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,516, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device includes a control unit. The control unit sets the first intermediate target point within the range of waters when the ship is located outside the range of waters capable of starting the automatic steering to the target docking point. When the distance of the vector connecting the position of the ship and the first inter...