US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Sept. 2 for "Position locating system, marine vessel, and trailer for marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,349, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Position locating system, marine vessel, and trailer for marine vessel" was invented by Hiroshi Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position locating system to locate relative position information between a marine vessel and a trailer includes a laser scanner on a first object, that is one of a marine vessel and a trailer for the marine vessel, to reciprocatingly scan a predetermined range in a horizontal direction with laser light, a laser light receiver on a second object, that is the other of the marine vessel and the trailer, to ...