US Patent Issued to Furuno Electric on Nov. 4 for "Disturbance estimating apparatus, method, and computer program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,495, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Furuno Electric Co. Ltd. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Disturbance estimating apparatus, method, and computer program" was invented by Yuta Miyabe (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disturbance estimation apparatus that includes a position data receiver, a thrust data receiver, and processing circuitry is provided. The position data receiver receives position data indicating a position of a ship. The thrust data receiver receives thrust data indicating a thrust force driving the ship during navigation. The processing circuitry determines a magnitude of the thrust force based on the thr...