US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Aug. 12 for "System for and method of controlling behavior of watercraft" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,363, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"System for and method of controlling behavior of watercraft" was invented by Satoru Hamada (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an outboard motor, an actuator, a pitch angle sensor, a trim angle sensor, and a controller to obtain at least either of a pitch angle of a watercraft and an angular velocity of the pitch angle, and to obtain a trim angle of the outboard motor. The controller is configured or programmed to selectively set either a trim-up direction or a trim-down direction as a trim direction based on the trim angle...