US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on Jan. 13 for "Route planning device, route planning method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,476, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Route planning device, route planning method, and program" was invented by Jun Yamabayashi (Sayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route planning device is provided with a display configured to display a chart on a screen, an operation interface configured to specify a position on the screen, a storage configured to store navigation publication related to a book referred to during past route planning in association with the position, a waypoint setting module configured to set a waypoint on the chart in response to a user's operation recei...