US Patent Issued to Brunswick on May 20 for "Transom bracket assemblies for supporting a marine drive on a vessel" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,605, issued on May 20, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Transom bracket assemblies for supporting a marine drive on a vessel" was invented by Thomas F. Nickols (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Jeremy J. Kraus (Mt. Calvary, Wis.) and David M. Schmidt (Omro, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transom bracket assembly is for supporting a marine drive on a marine vessel. The assembly comprises a transom bracket comprising a swivel cylinder, a steering arm extending from the marine drive, a swivel tube having a first end coupled to the steering arm and a second end seated in the swivel cylinder so that steering of the steering arm...