US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on July 8 for "Watercraft maneuvering control apparatus, and watercraft maneuvering system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,287, issued on July 8, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Watercraft maneuvering control apparatus, and watercraft maneuvering system" was invented by Kohei Yamaguchi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watercraft maneuvering control apparatus for controlling a propulsion device of a watercraft includes an obstacle sensor to detect an obstacle around the watercraft, a pattern sailing commander operated by a user to provide a command to sail the watercraft in a sailing pattern, and a controller configured or programmed to control the propulsion device. The controller is configured or programmed to f...