US Patent Issued to TAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 10 for "Marine vessel maneuvering support system, and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,503, issued on June 10, was assigned to TAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel maneuvering support system, and marine vessel" was invented by Takuya Murayama (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masaru Tamaki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel maneuvering support system includes a steering apparatus including a wheel portion supported rotatably with respect to a hull, mode switches provided on the wheel portion and operable to execute lateral thrust generation modes to generate a thrust that moves the hull in a lateral direction, paddles provided on the steering apparatus and operable to cause a thrust ...