US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on March 25 for "Overboard detection system, and watercraft including the overboard detection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,107, issued on March 25, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Overboard detection system, and watercraft including the overboard detection system" was invented by Naoju Takano (Shizuoka, Japan) and Makoto Ito (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overboard detection system includes a fob to be carried by a user on a watercraft, an overboard sensor to detect a user overboard event when the user carrying the fob falls overboard, and a communicator on the watercraft to wirelessly communicate with the fob and to transmit a rescue intention notification indicating a rescue intention to the fob carried by...