US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Nov. 11 for "Watercraft propulsion system, and watercraft including the watercraft propulsion system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,530, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Watercraft propulsion system, and watercraft including the watercraft propulsion system" was invented by Kento Sakurada (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watercraft propulsion system includes a bow thruster to generate a lateral propulsive force, a propulsion device on a stern of a hull and having a variable steering angle, and a controller configured or programmed to control the bow thruster and the propulsion device to perform a fixed point holding control to maintain a position and an azimuth of the hull. The fixed point holding contr...