US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Nov. 4 for "System for and method of controlling watercraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,614, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"System for and method of controlling watercraft" was invented by Hiroshi Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan) and Ryota Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a watercraft includes an engine sensor, a status sensor, and a watercraft operating controller. The engine sensor is operable to detect a rotational speed of the engine. The status sensor is operable to detect status data indicating a status of the watercraft. The watercraft operating controller is configured or programmed to determine that an actual operation of the marine propulsion...