ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,295, issued on March 3, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Watercraft troubleshooting support system, and server, communication terminal and client terminal for the watercraft troubleshooting support system" was invented by Ryota Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watercraft troubleshooting support system includes a communication terminal configured or programmed to transmit watercraft configuration information; a server configured or programmed to receive the configuration information transmitted by the communication terminal, accumulate at least the configuration information for a plurali...