ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,298, issued on April 7, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Watercraft positional information managing system, server, and watercraft positional information managing method" was invented by Hiroshi Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tomoaki Sato (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watercraft positional information managing system in which GPS-based positional information is prevented from being falsified includes a server and a watercraft. The watercraft includes a propulsion device and a communicator to communicate with the server. The communicator includes a position detector to detect positional inform...