US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Nov. 11 for "Marine propulsion systems and control methods" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,532, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine propulsion systems and control methods" was invented by Thomas S. Kirchhoff (Waupaca, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a marine drive configured to propel a marine vessel. The method includes receiving a destination for the marine vessel, receiving a demand request for operating the marine drive, and operating the marine drive at an actual demand corresponding to the demand request. The method further includes determining a required energy for the marine drive to propel the marine vessel to the destination at the actual demand...