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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2018
Caterpillar Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Brian Neathery, Hockey, TX (US);
Jonathan Steinbrink, Cypress, TX (US);
Hashim Marzuq, Houston, TX (US);
Ben Pulley, Oak Creek, WI (US);
Gino George, Thrissur, IN;
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
A marine vessel may be controlled by a device receiving an input to place a drive system of a marine vessel into an operation mode; positioning two or more marine drive units of the drive system in a first configuration based on the input; identifying, and while the drive system is in the operation mode, that respective throttles associated with the two or more marine drive units are in a same drive position; and repositioning the two or more marine drive units to a second configuration based on identifying that the respective throttles are in the same drive position.