ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,535, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a ship monitoring system which makes it easy for a user to grasp a change in a risk situation. The ship monitoring system includes a first data generator, a second data generator, processing circuitry, and an alarm sounding part. The first data generator generates first ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a first ship. The second data gen...