US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on June 17 for "Automatic steering device, automatic steering system, automatic steering method, and automatic steering program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,762, issued on June 17, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Automatic steering device, automatic steering system, automatic steering method, and automatic steering program" was invented by Tomoyasu Takahashi (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic steering device includes an acquirer, and processing circuitry. The acquirer acquires a traveling state including a heading or a position of a ship, and ship information on the ship. The processing circuitry calculates a first evaluation value that is an evaluation value indicative of a performance for maintaining the heading of the ship or ...