US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 17 for "System for and method of controlling watercraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,761, issued on June 17, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"System for and method of controlling watercraft" was invented by Hidehiko Harada (Shizuoka, Japan), Jumpei Yasuda (Shizuoka, Japan) and Ryota Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a data communication module, a position sensor, and a controller. The position sensor is operable to detect a position of a watercraft. The controller is configured or programmed to send at least one of functional information, trouble information, or operational information to an external computer through a data communication module. In the fu...