US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 24 for "Usage management system for ship propulsion apparatus, ship propulsion apparatus, user terminal device, and usage rights management server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,940, issued on June 24, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Usage management system for ship propulsion apparatus, ship propulsion apparatus, user terminal device, and usage rights management server" was invented by Eiichi Hirose (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroshi Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A usage management system includes a use rights management server and a user terminal. A controller of a vessel propulsion apparatus operates a prime mover in a permission mode to permit an output exceeding a predetermined limit output if use permission is provided from the user terminal, and operates th...