ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,509, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Accumulating and utilizing port information by sensor recognition" was invented by Makoto Yazaki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, adapted for a boat to accumulate and utilize information of a port, the system including a control unit having a processor configured to function as a determining part that determines an open berth of the port; and a display part that displays the open berth determined by the determining part on a display. The control unit determines the open berth based on a first data and a second data, the first data includes ...