US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 2 for "Marine propulsion system and method for wake control" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,610, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine propulsion system and method for wake control" was invented by Aadish Dilip Naik (Champaign, Ill.), Brandon L. Tate (Walnut Hill, Ill.) and Trevor George (Savoy, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling propulsion of a marine vessel includes receiving an instruction to engage a wake control mode and then automatically effectuating a steering change and/or a propulsion output change. A vessel orientation response to the steering change and/or the propulsion output change is measured and a determination of whether a wake zone requirement...