ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,572, issued on March 4.
"System and method for controlling motorized boat fender deployment and retrieval systems" was invented by Shmuel Sam Arditi (Discovery Bay, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for precise and consistent control of automated systems for deployment of boat fenders. The system comprises a computing device, one or more sensors, a motor controller, and a motor driver for operating motorized systems for deployment and/or retrieval of boat fenders. Various embodiments of the system use sensors and corresponding compensators to adjust the time of operation of a motor of the motorized system to e...