ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,763, issued on June 17, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel propulsion control system and marine vessel" was invented by Yuji Ikegaya (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel includes a marine vessel propulsion control system including a display and a controller configured or programmed to control movement of the marine vessel and to execute fixed point holding control to restrict movement of the marine vessel to keep the marine vessel at a predetermined position. When a target position is newly set during the fixed point holding control, the controller is configured or progr...