US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Feb. 3 for "Configurable shift and throttle mechanism for tiller of marine drive" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,953, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Configurable shift and throttle mechanism for tiller of marine drive" was invented by David J. Belter (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tiller system for a marine drive having an electric motor is provided. The tiller system includes a tiller having a shift handle and a throttle grip configured to be rotated about a throttle axis to control a speed of the electric motor. The tiller system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the throttle grip and the shift handle. The controller is configured to determine whether the tiller is in...