US Patent Issued to Vector Controls on May 26 for "System for controlling marine craft with steerable drives" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,193, issued on May 26, was assigned to Vector Controls Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"System for controlling marine craft with steerable drives" was invented by Robert A. Morvillo (Dover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling one or more propulsion devices of a marine vessel. The system includes circuitry configured to: receive a steering angle command for a propulsion device of the marine vessel; receive a trim position of the propulsion device; and generate a steering actuator position command for the propulsion device based on the steering angle command the trim position of the propulsion device."

The patent was fi...