US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on April 7 for "Navigation control system and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,355, issued on April 7, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Navigation control system and marine vessel" was invented by Satoru Hamada (Shizuoka, Japan), Akihiro Onoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Toshio Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaru Suemori (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshiyuki Kadobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Manami Oyama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation control system includes an obstacle detector on a hull to detect a distance from a hull to an obstacle on a water surface and a position of the obstacle. The navigation control system further includes a thruster on the hull to generate a propulsiv...