US Patent Issued to Brunswick on April 1 for "Systems and methods for controlling drive units of a marine vessel to enhance imaging of a marine environment" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,391, issued on April 1, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for controlling drive units of a marine vessel to enhance imaging of a marine environment" was invented by Trevor George (Savoy, Ill.), Jason S. Arbuckle (Horicon, Wis.) and Brennan J. Kelly (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion control system for a marine vessel includes at least one image sensor positioned on the marine vessel and configured to image an area behind the marine vessel, and multiple drive units configured to propel the marine vessel. Each of the drive units is steerable about a vertical steering axis. T...