US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 9 for "Watercraft propulsion system, and watercraft including the watercraft propulsion system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,690, issued on June 9, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Watercraft propulsion system, and watercraft including the watercraft propulsion system" was invented by Akihiro Tagata (Shizuoka, Japan), Katsutoshi Naito (Shizuoka, Japan) and Makoto Ito (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watercraft propulsion system includes a bow thruster, at least two propulsion devices, a translation/bow turning operator to apply a translation command to translate a hull and a bow turning command to turn a bow of the hull, and a controller configured or programmed to drive the bow thruster, and drive one of the at lea...