US Patent Issued to RAYMARINE UK on Jan. 20 for "Water non-water segmentation systems and methods" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,885, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RAYMARINE UK Ltd. (Fareham, Great Britain).

"Water non-water segmentation systems and methods" was invented by Mark Johnson (Vannes, France), Celyn Walters (Fareham, Great Britain), Richard Bowden (Surrey, Great Britain) and Oscar Mendez Maldonado (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods for water non-water segmentation of navigational imagery to assist in the autonomous navigation of mobile structures. An imagery based navigation system includes a logic device configured to communicate with an imaging module coupled to a mobile stru...