US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Dec. 9 for "Gearcase assemblies for marine drives having torpedo plugs" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,977, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Gearcase assemblies for marine drives having torpedo plugs" was invented by Brad J. VanRuiswyk (Waupun, Wis.), Jay P. Dehling (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Vinit Prabhu (West Bend, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearcase assembly for a marine drive has a gearcase having a torpedo housing, a torpedo plug in the torpedo housing, the torpedo plug separating a lubricant cavity containing lubricant for the gearcase and a water cavity containing cooling water for the marine drive, and a shift actuator configured to actuate a shift clutch in the gearcase. The shift actuato...