US Patent Issued to Furuno Electric on Aug. 19 for "Disturbance estimating apparatus, method, and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,613, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Furuno Electric Co. Ltd. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Disturbance estimating apparatus, method, and computer program" was invented by Yuta Miyabe (Nishinomiya, Japan) and Tomoyasu Takahashi (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disturbance estimation apparatus including a navigation data receiver, a thrust data receiver, and processing circuitry is provided. The navigation data receiver acquires navigation data including an actual position and time of the ship on a water surface. The thrust data receiver receives thrust data indicating a magnitude and a direction of a thrust force of t...