ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,737, issued on May 13.
"Torsion guidance launch and recovery system and method" was invented by Joseph K. Isley III (Fort Myers, Fla.), Joseph K Isley IV (Fort Myers, Fla.) and Sabrina I. Lundbohm (Fort Myers, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vessel controlling device for positioning a vessel includes a base for supporting the vessel. A primary guide is coupled to the base. A secondary guide is couple to the base. The vessel impacts with the primary guide and thesecondary guide. The primary guide and thesecondary guide direct the vessel towardsthecenter of the base during launching and recovering the vessel relative to the base....