US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on May 26 for "Marine vessel rental system and marine vessel rental method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,177, issued on May 26, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel rental system and marine vessel rental method" was invented by Hiroshi Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel rental system that permits/prohibits starting of a driving source of a marine vessel in response to time and a marine vessel location includes a generator to generate an electronic key associated with information about a marine vessel for rent and information about a rental period in response to a request from a user terminal, and to transmit the information to the user terminal, a controller configured...