US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Nov. 25 for "Marine propulsion system with pre-charge and discharge circuit" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,557, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine propulsion system with pre-charge and discharge circuit" was invented by Daniel R. Kletti (Juneau, Wis.) and Jacob A. Yadon (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine propulsion system includes an electric marine drive comprising an electric motor powered by a power storage system, a link capacitor connected to the electric motor in parallel with the power storage system, and a high current switch positioned in a main current path between the power storage system and the electric motor and configured to have an on state that allows suffic...