ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,969, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).
"Marine AC generator system and method" was invented by Steven J. Gonring (Slinger, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine AC generator system includes a marine generator driven by an internal combustion engine and configured to generate an AC current and a rectifier configured to rectify the AC current to provide a DC current. At least one battery is configured to receive and be charged by the DC current. A battery powered inverter is configured to be powered by the at least one battery and to generate a variable current output frequency such that an AC e...