US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Nov. 25 for "Parallel steering actuation system and method for a marine vessel" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,553, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Parallel steering actuation system and method for a marine vessel" was invented by Steven J. Andrasko (Oshkosh, Wis.), Matthew W. Snyder (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Andrew Sheely (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Ryan A. Fergus (Neenah, Wis.) and Travis C. Malouf (Germantown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for steering a marine vessel includes first and second marine drives connected by a mechanical link such that they are steered in parallel, a first steering actuator configured to rotate the first marine drive and a first steering position sensor configured to meas...