US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 23 for "Marine drives having a retainer for flexible rigging connectors" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,900, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine drives having a retainer for flexible rigging connectors" was invented by Andrew J. Przybyl (Berlin, Wis.), Kenneth E. Peterson (Waupun, Wis.), Derek J. Fletcher (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Phillip J. Niemann (Howards Grove, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine drive is for propelling a marine vessel in water. The marine drive has a cowling defining a cowling interior, a steering arm extending forwardly from the marine drive, the steering arm configured for steering of the marine drive about a steering axis, a flexible rigging connector extending forwa...