US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Jan. 20 for "Marine vessel maneuvering system, and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,569, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel maneuvering system includes a jet propulsion device to jet a water current out from a jetting port and obtain a propulsive force from a recoil of the jetted water current, a handle to change a direction of the jetting port, a reverse bucket to open and close the jetting port, and a controller configured or programmed to change the direction of the jetting port in accordance with a rotation angle of the hand...