US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on Oct. 21 for "Ship monitoring system, ship monitoring method, and information processing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,016, 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 Makoto Yoshinaga (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ship monitoring system has a first data generator that generates first ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a first ship. The second data generator generates second ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a second ship. The processing circuitry specifies a risk range where a ship area occupied by the first ship or a watch area set around the first ship ...