US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Oct. 7 for "Boat and lateral movement control method for boat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,539, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Boat and lateral movement control method for boat" was invented by Satoru Hamada (Shizuoka, Japan), Akihiro Onoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Toshio Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaru Suemori (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshiyuki Kadobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Manami Oyama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a boat including a hull, when the hull is moved laterally based on an output from the outboard motor, the hull rolls, which may cause discomfort to a user or passengers. To compensate for this, a lateral movement control method for the boat including th...