ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,349, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Automatic determination of mooring direction of boat" was invented by Yoshiyuki Misumi (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically determining a mooring direction or a berth approach direction of a boat. The system including a control unit including a processor. The control unit is configured to obtain image information, the image information including information of an other boat that is moored; identify a mooring direction of the other boat based on the image information; determine the mooring direction or the berth approach directi...