ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,297, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Ship docking assistance device" was invented by Yuichiro Dake (Osaka, Japan), Naohiro Hara (Osaka, Japan), Tomoya Fukukawa (Osaka, Japan), Isao Wakabayashi (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiyuki Yokoue (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ship docking assistance device includes a position azimuth information acquisition unit; a LIDAR; a map generation updating unit; a high-point acquisition unit; and a position azimuth estimation unit. The LIDAR acquires point-group data three-dimensionally indicating the environment around a ship. The map gener...