ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,526, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Ship control device and ship control method" was invented by Tomoyasu Takahashi (Amagasaki, Japan) and Naoya Hashimoto (Nishinomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proper setting of feedback control according to the ship.The ship control device includes processing circuitry configured to set the ship characteristic parameters of the combined system of first order lag and dead time, which integrates the behavior of the rudder and the behavior of the ship. Using the ship characteristic parameters, the processing circuitry is further configured t...