US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Feb. 17 for "Marine vessel and control apparatus for marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,506, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel and control apparatus for 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), Manami Oyama (Shizuoka, Japan) and Makoto Mizutani (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel includes a hull, left and right propulsion devices attached to a stern of the hull, left and right drive units to change a rotation angle of the left and right propulsion devices about left and right...