US Patent Issued to VOLVO PENTA on Sept. 23 for "Method for maneuvering a boat provided with a single drive unit" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,902, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VOLVO PENTA Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for maneuvering a boat provided with a single drive unit" was invented by Lars Wik (Savedalen, Sweden) and Johan Tell (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for maneuvering a boat provided with a single drive unit, includes: Obtaining net momentum direction data indicative of a target horizontal rotational movement of the hull, triggering a series of bursts of thrust by the drive unit, said series of bursts of thrust comprising a plurality of primary bursts and a plurality of secondary bursts directed di...