ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,532, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CPAC SYSTEMS AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Control method and control unit for a marine 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: "A method to control a marine vessel comprising two or more drive units. The method involves registering an operating command indicating a requested sideways or bow bollard push function; detecting a current vessel position; registering the current vessel position as a desired vessel position; executing the reque...