US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Nov. 4 for "Marine drives having an electric motor assembly and methods for making the same" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,624, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine drives having an electric motor assembly and methods for making the same" was invented by William W. McEathron (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and Vinodh Kumar Balakrishnan (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine drive includes a torpedo housing having an open end and an electric motor assembly with an electric motor configured to power a propulsor for propelling the marine drive in water. The electric motor assembly includes a motor housing which is nested in the open end such that such that a first portion of the motor housing extends into the tor...