ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,201, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"System for correcting effect of tidal current and wind on boat" was invented by Kazuhiro Sato (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, adapted for correcting an effect of an external disturbance on a boat. The system includes a control unit including a processor configured to function as: a disturbance obtaining unit, that obtains disturbance information of the boat, the disturbance information of the boat including at least one of a flow direction of the boat, a flow speed of the boat, or a rotation direction of the boat while a propulsion unit of t...