US Patent Issued to VOLVO PENTA on Sept. 29 for "Control of force feedback application to a marine vessel joystick" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,008, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to VOLVO PENTA Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Control of force feedback application to a marine vessel joystick" was invented by Jonatan Bergenwall (Ojersjo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine maneuvering system for a marine vessel is provided. The marine maneuvering system comprises a marine vessel control unit configured to: obtain a requested movement of a joystick indicating a speed value and a direction value for an upcoming navigation of the marine vessel; obtain proximity signals from a proximity sensor in response to a target being sensed in at least portions of an environment ...