US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 30 for "Marine steering system and method" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,870, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine steering system and method" was invented by Matthew E. Derginer (Butte des Mort, Wis.), John O. Scherer III (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Roger W. Schreiber (Fremont, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling steering of a marine vessel includes receiving a steering input from an operator-controlled steering input device, determining a desired turn rate for the marine vessel and a desired roll angle for the marine vessel based on the steering input, and controlling a steering angle of at least one trimmable propulsion device based on the desire...