ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,954, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Crew support system, and server, communication terminal, and client terminal for the crew support system" was invented by Ryota Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Toshihiko Ono (Shizuoka, Japan), Akira Takeuchi (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasuhiro Kitazawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Haruhiko Hashimoto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yoshimasa Kinoshita (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crew support system includes a communication terminal to collect information about a device on a watercraft and transmit the information, a server to receive the information from the communic...