US Patent Issued on March 4 for "Steering mechanism for shallow draft container carrier and inland waterway container transport vessel" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,582, issued on March 4.

"Steering mechanism for shallow draft container carrier and inland waterway container transport vessel" was invented by Gregg George Creppel (New Orleans).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering mechanism for a container carrier ship hull including a bow, a stern, and a container bay therebetween. The bow is provided with a set of depending lateral thruster pods, the set including a first pod disposed along a longitudinal centerline of the hull, a second pod disposed rearward of the first pod and outward from the centerline, and a third pod disposed rearward of the first pod and outward from the centerline op...