US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on Aug. 12 for "Automatic steering device, automatic steering system, automatic steering method, and automatic steering program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,510, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Automatic steering device, automatic steering system, automatic steering method, and automatic steering program" was invented by Tomoyasu Takahashi (Amagasaki, Japan), Naoya Hashimoto (Nishinomiya, Japan) and Ardhana Wicaksono (Misato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To control an automatic steering appropriately regardless of a ship speed, an automatic steering device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires motion information including a ship length and a ship speed. The processing circuitry identifies a non-dimensiona...