US Patent Issued to Brunswick on March 25 for "Marine propulsion system and joystick control method" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,115, issued on March 25, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine propulsion system and joystick control method" was invented by Matthew E. Derginer (Butte des Mort, Wis.), Troy R. Brockdorf (Omro, Wis.) and Travis C. Malouf (Germantown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine propulsion system for a marine vessel including a joystick, at least one steerable and trimmable marine drive, and a control system configured to receive a user input to engage full vessel control mode, receive a vessel speed parameter, and receive a joystick position from the joystick. The control system determines a thrust command, a ste...