US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 17 for "Steering control system of marine vessel, marine vessel and steering control method of marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,646, issued on June 17, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Steering control system of marine vessel, marine vessel and steering control method of marine vessel" was invented by Makoto Ito (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kohei Yamaguchi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control system of a marine vessel includes a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to turn the marine vessel so as to change a target orientation in an automatic marine vessel maneuvering mode to hold a course in which the marine vessel is moved to the target orientation, and an operator to receive an operation t...