US Patent Issued to Navico on July 22 for "Systems and methods for creating and managing wayareas" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,460, issued on July 22, was assigned to Navico Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Systems and methods for creating and managing wayareas" was invented by Paul Robert Bailey (Auckland, New Zealand) and Aska Lai (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for creating and displaying wayareas on a screen. A system includes a memory and a processor, and the processor is configured to retrieve a plurality of waypoints from the memory. Each of the plurality of waypoints is associated with a location and one or more waypoint characteristics, which include at least one of weather data, season data, time o...