US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Nov. 3 for "System for and method of controlling propulsion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,392, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"System for and method of controlling propulsion device" was invented by Makoto Ito (Shizuoka, Japan), Kohei Yamaguchi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yoshikazu Nakayasu (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a joystick is positioned within a first dead zone including a neutral position, a controller pauses a shifting action and steering of a propulsion device regardless of a tilt operation and a twist operation of the joystick. When the joystick is positioned within a second dead zone located rearward of the first dead zone, the controller pauses the ...