US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING on Feb. 25 for "Ship propulsion device controller, ship propulsion device control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,002, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Ship propulsion device controller, ship propulsion device control method, and program" was invented by Masato Shirao (Yokohama, Japan), Marino Akita (Yokohama, Japan) and Takafumi Oshima (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ship propulsion device controller controls a plurality of ship propulsion devices disposed on a rear portion of a hull of a ship. The ship includes an operation unit configured to operate the ship propulsion devices. The operation unit is able to be positioned at a first position where the ship propulsion devices do not ge...