ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,502, issued on June 10.
"Robotic-throttle control of a fishing vessel" was invented by Joel R. Toy (Corona, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic throttle-control system for controlling a throttle-power setting of a throttle of a fishing vessel is provided. The control unit has a processor unit that instructs the control unit of the throttle-power setting at which to set the throttle and a time span for maintaining the throttle at the throttle-power setting. A user interface of the control unit has a dual-mode switch that communicates to the processor unit through both a rotational position of the dual-mode switch and an ax...