US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 30 for "Steering control device that makes control of a steering mode of marine vessel, method thereof, and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,347, issued on June 30, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Steering control device that makes control of a steering mode of marine vessel, method thereof, and marine vessel" was invented by Takuma Ito (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device for a marine vessel that cancels an automatic steering mode by a rotation operation of a steering wheel includes a controller to perform a control to shift to the automatic steering mode when acquiring a start instruction in a normal steering mode, and to shift to the normal steering mode when a rotation angle position of the steering wheel ...