US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Dec. 30 for "Marine vessel maneuvering system and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,196, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel maneuvering system and marine vessel" was invented by Satoru Hamada (Shizuoka, Japan), Akihiro Onoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Toshio Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaru Suemori (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshiyuki Kadobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Manami Oyama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel maneuvering system includes a controller configured or programmed to perform a water entry determination control to determine whether or not water behind a hull that rises above a water surface due to deceleration of the hull may enter t...