US Patent Issued to Navico Holding AS on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for classifying and responding to heading error in marine propulsion" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,067, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Navico Holding AS (Egersund, Norway).

"Systems and methods for classifying and responding to heading error in marine propulsion" was invented by Christopher Crawford (Bixby, Okla.) and Antony Mackenzie (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a marine drive configured to propel a marine vessel is provided. The method includes operating the marine drive to effectuate a specified heading, measuring a heading of the marine vessel using a heading sensor, and measuring acceleration data of the marine vessel using at least one sensor. The method further includes det...