US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 3 for "Control device of marine vessel, control system of marine vessel, and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,394, issued on June 3, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Control device of marine vessel, control system of marine vessel, and marine vessel" was invented by Yukitaka Okamoto (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasuhiko Hemmi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takuya Murayama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device of a marine vessel includes a wireless master unit to wirelessly communicate with a wireless slave unit possessed or worn by a vessel operator, and a processor configured or programmed to function as a detecting unit to detect that an engaging portion of a lanyard connectable to a connecting portion provi...