ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,904, issued on May 20, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"System, boat, and electronic device" was invented by Shigeru Kuroi (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system accepts an operation to be carried out to virtually install installation objects on a water surface, acquires positional information about each point, and creates course data of a course passing through areas to be determined on the basis of installation positions of the installation objects in the order of installation. The system installs installation objects as buoys, creates a guide image to be used to indicate a buoy to be pass...