US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on March 25 for "System for and method of controlling behavior of watercraft" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,112, issued on March 25, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"System for and method of controlling behavior of watercraft" was invented by Satoru Hamada (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an outboard motor, a lift actuator, a sensor, and a controller. The sensor detects motion information indicating an up-and-down directional motion of a bow of a watercraft. The controller is configured or programmed to selectively set either a lift-up direction or a lift-down direction as a lift direction in accordance with the up-and-down directional motion of the bow based on the motion informat...