US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for displaying azimuth of marine vessel, marine vessel, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,142, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for displaying azimuth of marine vessel, marine vessel, and storage medium" was invented by Hirofumi Amma (Shizuoka, Japan), Hidenori Satake (Shizuoka, Japan), Yukitaka Okamoto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hideyoshi Sato (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus to reduce or prevent misrecognition of an actual azimuth of a marine vessel includes acquiring a speed of the marine vessel and an azimuth of the marine vessel, and displaying a mark on a display based on the acquired speed and the acquired azimuth. The...