US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 10 for "Marine vessel that suitably transmits rescue signal, and method for controlling the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,497, issued on June 10, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel that suitably transmits rescue signal, and method for controlling the same" was invented by Hirofumi Amma (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel to transmit a rescue signal includes a hull, a propulsion force generator to generate a propulsion force to propel the hull, and a controller. In the marine vessel, the controller is configured or programmed to acquire vessel speed information regarding a vessel speed of the hull, and determine whether or not rescue is necessary based on the vessel speed information in a c...