US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Sept. 30 for "Boat control system and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,110, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Boat control system and marine vessel" was invented by Yukitaka Okamoto (Shizuoka, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Nakamura (Shizuoka, Japan), Mitsuaki Kurokawa (Osaka, Japan) and Shimpei Fukumoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boat control system includes an imager to image a user towed by a hull, an image processor to determine a predetermined state of the user from an image captured by the imager, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to adjust a thruster operable to change a propulsion state of the hull based on the pre...