ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,235, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Ship monitoring system, ship monitoring method, and information processing device" was invented by Seiichi Uoshita (Nishinomiya, Japan), Kazuya Nakagawa (Amagasaki, Japan) and Yuichi Takebayashi (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a ship monitoring system capable of improving legibility of an OZT. The ship monitoring system includes a first data generator, a second data generator, and processing circuitry. The first data generator generates first ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a fi...