US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on Oct. 21 for "Navigation route planning apparatus and navigation route planning method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,095, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Navigation route planning apparatus and navigation route planning method" was invented by Seiichi Uoshita (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation route planning apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to receive a planned route indicating a route and a current course direction of a movable body, receive movable body information that includes a position, a travelling direction, and a speed of the own ship, receive obstacle information that includes a position, a traveling direction, and a speed of an obstacle, det...