US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on March 31 for "Vessel operator warning support system and vessel operator warning support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,845, issued on March 31, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Vessel operator warning support system and vessel operator warning support method" was invented by Hirofumi Amma (Shizuoka, Japan), Hidenori Satake (Shizuoka, Japan), Yukitaka Okamoto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hideyoshi Sato (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vessel operator warning support system includes a personal watercraft (PWC), an information terminal operable to acquire current position information on the PWC and to communicate with the PWC, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a predetermined control based on an eng...