ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,499, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine vessels with light systems and methods thereof with user input device for selectively emitting light in the starboard and/or port direction" was invented by Kristin M. McGinnis (Cocoa Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel includes a bow, a stern, a port side, and a starboard side laterally spaced apart from the port side. A light system is coupled to the bow or the stern and operable to emit light in a starboard direction and in a port direction from the bow or the stern. An operator interface device configured to receive an input, a...