ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,513, issued on April 15, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).
"Marine propulsion control system and method" was invented by Kenneth G. Gable (Oshkosh, Wis.), Daniel E. Clarkson (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Steven J. Andrasko (Oshkosh, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system and propulsion control method for a marine vessel is configured to detect a steering position of at least one propulsion device, determine a difference between the detected steering position and a centered steering position, and require, by a controller, that the detected steering position be within a threshold range of the centered steering posi...