ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,195, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Furuno Electric Co. Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Tidal information display device" was invented by Masato Okuda (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tidal information display device for a movable body includes a position measurement module configured to detect a position of the movable body, a geographical information selection module configured to determine geographic information to be displayed on a display screen based on the detected position, a tidal information module configured to receive and store tidal information based on the detected position, and a tidal information display modul...