US Patent Issued to Brunswick on May 27 for "Dive doors for marine vessels having ladder storage" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,048, issued on May 27, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Dive doors for marine vessels having ladder storage" was invented by Danielle N. Page (New Smyrna Beach, Fla.), Kristin M. McGinnis (Cocoa Beach, Fla.) and David Courtemanche (Edgewater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel is for operating in a body of water. The marine vessel has a hull having a deck and a sidewall extending vertically upwardly relative to the deck, wherein together the sidewall and deck define an interior of the marine vessel. A dive door is pivotable about a vertical pivot axis into and between an open position opening a doorw...