US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on July 15 for "Nautical chart processing device and nautical chart processing method" (Japanese, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,920, issued on July 15, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Nautical chart processing device and nautical chart processing method" was invented by Jun Yamabayashi (OsakaSayama, Japan), Masato Okuda (Kyoto, Japan), Tomoko Fujimoto (Kobe, Japan), Timo Kostiainen (Espoo, Finland) and Antti Kuukka (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nautical chart processing device is provided. The nautical chart processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive position information indicating position of a pair of base points on an electronic chart, set a movable m...