US Patent Issued to Yanmar Power Technology on April 29 for "Control target generation device and ship-steering control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,207, issued on April 29, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Control target generation device and ship-steering control device" was invented by Naohiro Hara (Osaka, Japan), Tomoya Fukukawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yuichiro Dake (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control target controller generates control targets in accordance with a route, the control targets being for controlling the location and orientation of a ship. The route has a plurality of via points. Each of the via points has information about a target location and a target orientation for the ship. The route is made up of a plurality of...