ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,699, issued on May 27, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring electrical systems of marine vessels" was invented by John T. Ledden (Edgewater, Fla.) and Robert P. Macias (Merritt Island, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical system for a marine vessel. The electrical system includes a power supply that produces an output. A powered device is electrically coupled to the power supply, where the powered device receives an incoming power from the power supply. An analysis module determines a difference between the output of the power supply and the incoming power received by the p...