ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,173, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).
"System and method for controlling docking for a marine vessel" was invented by Trevor George (Savoy, Ill.) and Brandon L. Tate (Walnut Hill, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling docking includes an imaging system configured to image an area around a marine vessel to generate image data and a control system. The control system is configured to receive a selected docking area, locate the selected docking area in the image data, locate at least one dock tie-off point along the selected docking area in the image data, identify an optimized do...