US Patent Issued to Brunswick on March 18 for "Marine vessel station keeping to reduce wear and noise on propulsion system" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,224, issued on March 18, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine vessel station keeping to reduce wear and noise on propulsion system" was invented by Jason S. Arbuckle (Horicon, Wis.), Steven J. Andrasko (Oshkosh, Wis.) and David M. Van Buren (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for maintaining a marine vessel at a target position in a body of water, the method being carried out by a processing system and including: estimating at least one roughness condition of the body of water based on measurements related to an attitude of the marine vessel; calculating a desired linear velocity based on a...