ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,165, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Automatic berthing system for watercraft" was invented by Marudan Kiji (Saitama, Japan) and Ryuta Suzuki (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic berthing system for watercraft, comprising: an environment sensor configured to detect objects around own watercraft; and a control unit configured to control the watercraft, and including a processor for processing an output of the environment sensor, wherein the processor is configured to create an environment map containing outer profiles and positions of the objects according to an output of the en...