US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on Feb. 3 for "Ship monitoring device, ship monitoring method and a non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,061, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Ship monitoring device, ship monitoring method and a non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Makoto Yoshinaga (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ship monitoring device includes processing circuitry that acquires first and second ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a first ship and a second ship. It identifies, a first area of an estimated course of the second ship, where a risk of the first ship and the second ship colliding with each other becomes more than a given value, and a second area separat...