ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,386, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus and control method for outboard motor" was invented by Toshiaki Takeshita (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for an outboard motor (4, 5) mounted on a hull (2), comprises a control unit (30, 40) that controls an attitude of the outboard motor (4, 5) with respect to the hull (2), and a detection unit (47, 49) that detects a counter electromotive force generated by an attitude change of the outboard motor (4, 5) due to an external force applied on the outboard motor (4, 5). The control unit (30, 40) determines that an o...