US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on March 25 for "Marine vessel propulsion control system and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,728, issued on March 25, 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 propulsion control system includes a controller to control a movement of a marine vessel and propulsion devices each including a power source and a thrust generator to generate a thrust based on a drive force of the power source. The controller controls the movement of the marine vessel to navigate according to a preset sea route including a target position. The controller reduces the drive force of th...