US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Oct. 28 for "Adaptable throttle units for marine drives and methods for installing them" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,342, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Adaptable throttle units for marine drives and methods for installing them" was invented by Ryan Abellera (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Todd Dannenberg (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Suresh Venigalla (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and Bruce Heidel (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptable throttle unit for controlling a marine drive. A housing having first and second sides is coupleable to a marine vessel in a first orientation with the first side above the second side and in a second orientation with the first side below the second side. A throttle lever is configured ...