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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2023
Brunswick Corporation, Mettawa, IL (US);
Matthew E. Derginer, Butte des Mort, WI (US);
Aaron J. Ward, Oshkosh, WI (US);
Travis C. Malouf, Germantown, WI (US);
Brunswick Corporation, Mettawa, IL (US);
Abstract
A proximity sensor system on a marine vessel includes one or more proximity sensors configured to measure proximity of objects in a predefined area around the marine vessel and generate proximity measurements, and a memory storing a zone map, wherein the zone map divides the predefined area around the marine vessel into two or more zones. A control system is configured to receive the proximity measurements, divide the proximity measurements into zone sets based the zone map, identify a closest proximity measurement in each zone set, and generate a zone-filtered dataset containing only the closest proximity measurement in each zone set.