US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Oct. 14 for "Marine propulsion device information transmitting and receiving system and marine propulsion device information transmitting and receiving method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,249, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine propulsion device information transmitting and receiving system and marine propulsion device information transmitting and receiving method" was invented by Hiroshi Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine propulsion device information transmitting and receiving system includes a watercraft and a server. The watercraft includes an engine and a controller to control the engine. The controller encrypts an operating time of the engine and data related to the engine with an encryption key associated with information unique to the...