US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on March 24 for "Ship docking assisting apparatus and ship docking assisting method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,563, issued on March 24, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Ship docking assisting apparatus and ship docking assisting method" was invented by Takahiro Ishii (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ship docking assisting apparatus and a ship docking assisting method assist a ship to be accurately docked with reduced hardware. The ship docking assisting apparatus includes a storage and a ship docking assist processor. The ship docking assisting apparatus and the ship docking assisting method assist the docking of the ship by outputting ship information related to the ship to an assist target device. ...