US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on July 22 for "Marine vessel propulsion control using map information and marine vessel including the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,437, issued on July 22, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel propulsion control using map information and marine vessel including the same" was invented by Makoto Ito (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel propulsion control system that smoothly performs propulsion control of a marine vessel includes a controller configured or programmed to control a propulsion device that applies a thrust to a marine vessel. The controller is configured or programmed to adjust the thrust based on position information of the marine vessel and map information that includes an avoidance target...