US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on Jan. 27 for "Small watercraft system and method of controlling small watercraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,168, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Small watercraft system and method of controlling small watercraft" was invented by Hironori Kato (Akashi, Japan), Toshio Araki (Akashi, Japan), Hiroshi Tomomori (Akashi, Japan), Kazumasa Hisada (Akashi, Japan), Daisuke Kawai (Akashi, Japan), Shohei Terai (Akashi, Japan) and Takuya Sakamoto (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small watercraft system includes: a watercraft body; a watercraft body manipulation member through which a watercraft body manipulation command is input by an operator; a drive source that allows the watercraft body to pla...