US Patent Issued to Yanmar Power Technology on Sept. 29 for "Route generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,407, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Route generation device" was invented by Naohiro Hara (Osaka, Japan), Tomoya Fukukawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yuichiro Dake (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, a route controller generates a route that makes a ship dock at a berthing facility. The route includes a first location and a second location (P2). The first location is a via point that is offset a prescribed distance in a direction that is orthogonal to the direction in which the berthing facility is oriented from a docking point for the ship at...