ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,340, issued on June 30, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Marine vessel" was invented by Hirofumi Amma (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel to improve a transmission characteristic of a rescue signal when the marine vessel is capsized includes a transmission source to transmit a rescue signal to a vicinity above a water surface both when the marine vessel is not capsized and when the marine vessel is capsized."
The patent was filed on June 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/204,424.
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