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 Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,622, 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 William W. McEathron (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Wayne M. Jaszewski (West Bend, Wis.) and Wayne T. Terry (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine drive for propelling a marine vessel in water, the marine drive comprising a cowling defining a cowling interior, a steering arm for steering the marine drive with respect to a steering axis; and a flexible rigging connector extending from the cowling interior to a location in...