US Patent Issued on July 29 for "Smartphone marine vessel location and collision avoidance system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,227, issued on July 29.

"Smartphone marine vessel location and collision avoidance system" was invented by Robert Ryan (Mattapoisett, Mass.), Stephen Hayes (Franklin, Mass.) and Robert E. Pantano (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smartphone marine vessel location system utilizes global positioning to determine the location and trajectory of marine vessels. When two marine vessels have a trajectory that will bring the vessels within a warning zone a trajectory alert is activated and when the two vessels enter into a warning zone, a collision warning is activated. An App on the smartphones may produce a display showing ...