US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on June 24 for "Ship control device, ship control method, and ship control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,662, issued on June 24, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Ship control device, ship control method, and ship control program" was invented by Shigeki Osaki (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve prediction accuracy in model predictive control.The ship control device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry estimates an initial search value of a throttle opening by an estimation method based on uncertainty with a distance between a position of the ship and a target position of dynamic positioning, and a true wind velocity as preconditions. The processing circuitry searche...