ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,599, issued on July 15, was assigned to Navico Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).
"Navigation of a boundary area using drift" was invented by Matthew W. Laster (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Michael C. Kaste (Tulsa, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for providing navigational control of a watercraft are provided herein. The system comprises a display, processor and memory. The memory including computer program code is configured to cause presentation of a chart on the display including at least a portion of the body of water. The system further receives user input indicating initiation of a drift protocol, including indication of ...