US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 15 for "System for detecting position of boat moored under roof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,603, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"System for detecting position of boat moored under roof" was invented by Takashi Hashizume (Saitama, Japan), Ryota Hisada (Tokyo) and Ryuichi Kimata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system, adapted for a boat having a first GNSS receiver disposed at a bow side of the boat, and a second GNSS receiver disposed at a stern side of the boat, the control system includes a control unit including a processor configured to determine whether an approach direction of the boat to a berth is bow first or stern first; and select, based on the approach direction, ...