US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 30 for "Propulsion system of marine vessel and marine propulsion method of marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,346, issued on June 30, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Propulsion system of marine vessel and marine propulsion method of marine vessel" was invented by Yuji Ikegaya (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system for a marine vessel includes a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to automatically steer the marine vessel, and to control a propulsion device to decelerate the marine vessel based on an orientation of the marine vessel with respect to a target position and a current position of the marine vessel with respect to the target position."

The patent was filed ...