US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on May 5 for "Marine vessel including steering mechanism for marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,515, issued on May 5, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel including steering mechanism for marine vessel" was invented by Yoshikazu Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takuya Murayama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel including a steering mechanism that includes a steering wheel including shift switches to cause the marine vessel to shift to a course holding mode to hold a course of the marine vessel, and a traveling direction maintaining mode to maintain a traveling direction of the marine vessel."

The patent was filed on Oct. 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/976,979.

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