ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,547, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Ship maneuvering device and ship" was invented by Naohiro Hara (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoya Fukukawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This ship maneuvering device causes a ship having at least one propulsion device mounted thereon to travel along a scheduled course. The ship maneuvering device is provided with a control unit. The control unit acquires an azimuth deviation between an actual bow azimuth, which is the current bow azimuth of the ship, and a target bow azimuth of the ship, and, on the basis of the azimuth deviation, generates a thru...