US Patent Issued to Brunswick on May 27 for "Systems and methods for controlling marine vessels based on seat occupancy" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,052, issued on May 27, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for controlling marine vessels based on seat occupancy" was invented by Kevin T. Farrell (New Smyrna Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a marine vessel having two or more seats. The method includes determining which of the seats are occupied seats and adjusting a control setting for controlling the marine vessel based on which of the seats are the occupied seats to provide an adjusted control setting. The method further provides for controlling the marine vessel based on the adjusted control setting so as to r...