US Patent Issued to CPAC SYSTEMS on July 1 for "Method to control a marine vessel, a control unit and a vessel" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,114, issued on July 1, was assigned to CPAC SYSTEMS AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method to control a marine vessel, a control unit and a vessel" was invented by Simon Bjorkman (Gothenburg, Sweden), David Wall (Gothenburg, Sweden), Lennart Dahlstrom (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Oskar Waldemarsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating command indicating a requested vessel direction and plotting a course represented by a reference line for the requested vessel direction from an initial position is registered. It is then monitored if the vessel has deviated from the reference line and if a deviation from the reference li...