US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on April 29 for "Marine vessel maneuvering system and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,208, issued on April 29, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel maneuvering system and marine vessel" was invented by Toshiya Tsuchiya (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel maneuvering system includes an operator to receive both a propulsive force operation to change a propulsive force of a propulsion device and a steering operation to turn the propulsion device to steer a marine vessel, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to automatically drive the propulsion device to move the marine vessel in an automatic marine vessel maneuvering mode. The contro...