US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Nov. 4 for "Marine drives and apparatuses for steering marine drives and for routing flexible rigging connectors on marine drives" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,621, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine drives and apparatuses for steering marine drives and for routing flexible rigging connectors on marine drives" was invented by Derek J. Fletcher (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine drive may include a frame configured to support the marine drive with respect to the marine vessel, a cowling enclosing a portion of the frame in a cowling interior, a steering arm configured such that movement of the steering arm causes rotation of the marine drive with respect to the steering axis, and a flexible rigging connector extending from the cowling...