US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Aug. 4 for "Trailering support device and method, and marine vessel including trailering support device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,073, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Trailering support device and method, and marine vessel including trailering support device" was invented by Hiroshi Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trailering support device able to facilitate loading of a hull onto a trailer includes one or more controllers configured or programmed to perform an automatic vessel steering control to move the hull toward the trailer; estimate, based on a content of the automatic vessel steering control, a position and an azimuth of the hull at a predetermined time after a start of the automatic ves...