US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on July 14 for "Watercraft propulsion system, and watercraft" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,522, issued on July 14, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Watercraft propulsion system, and watercraft" was invented by Yuji Ikegaya (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watercraft propulsion system includes first and second propulsion devices attachable to a hull asymmetrically with respect to an anteroposterior center line of the hull, a lateral movement command generator to generate a first lateral movement command a second lateral movement command to laterally move the hull rightward and leftward, and a controller. The controller includes a memory to store first and second lateral movement thr...