US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on Sept. 9 for "Ship navigation assistance device, ship navigation assistance method, and ship navigation assistance program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,011, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Ship navigation assistance device, ship navigation assistance method, and ship navigation assistance program" was invented by Tatsuya Sonobe (Ikeda, Japan), Hiroyuki Toda (Nishinomiya, Japan), Hiraku Nakamura (Tokyo) and Kazuki Tsujimoto (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present disclosure is to set the initial information of the anchoring object (target) of a ship with high accuracy. A ship navigation assistance system according to the present disclosure includes a provisional initial information specifier, a meas...