ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,280, issued on July 8, was assigned to Kawasaki Motors Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Small planing watercraft and method of controlling small planing watercraft" was invented by Yoshinobu Uozumi (Kobe, Japan), Masaaki Miyoshi (Kobe, Japan) and Kazuki Ueda (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small planing watercraft includes: a travel electrical component driven for travel of the small planing watercraft; an accessory electrical component provided separately from the travel electrical component; a battery supplying power to the travel electrical component and the accessory electrical component; a sensor detecting a physical quantity ...