US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Nov. 3 for "Watercraft propulsion system, and watercraft including the watercraft propulsion system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,383, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Watercraft propulsion system, and watercraft including the watercraft propulsion system" was invented by Yuta Kubota (Shizuoka, Japan), Akihiro Tagata (Shizuoka, Japan) and Katsutoshi Naito (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watercraft propulsion system includes a bow thruster at a bow of a hull to generate a lateral propulsive force, at least two propulsion devices on a stern of the hull each having a variable steering angle, and a controller configured or programmed to control the propulsive force of the bow thruster and control the propu...