ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,636, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Meta Systems Laboratories Inc. (Kagoshima, Japan) and Ocean Solution Technology K.K. (Nagasaki, Japan).

"Sea condition information providing device, sea condition information providing system, sea condition information providing program, and sea condition information providing method" was invented by Kentaro Oda (Kagoshima, Japan) and Yosuke Mizukami (Nagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first layer tidal current data acquirer acquires first layer tidal current data that represent a first layer vector quantity representing a direction and a speed of a tidal current in a first layer....