US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Nov. 4 for "Marine propulsion system and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,628, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine propulsion 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 propulsion system includes a main propulsion device, an auxiliary propulsion device including an electric motor to drive an auxiliary thruster, and a controller configured or programmed to perform an automatic marine vessel maneuvering control to direct a bow or a stern of a hull to a target point by rotating the hull and maintain the hull, the bow or the stern of which has been directed to the target point, at the target point...