US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 30 for "Methods for a marine vessel with primary and auxiliary propulsion devices" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,122, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Methods for a marine vessel with primary and auxiliary propulsion devices" was invented by Andres Perdomo Tornbaum (Neenah, Wis.), Kenneth G. Gable (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Conor A. Leehaug (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a marine vessel includes determining if a first propulsion device on the marine vessel is rotated about a horizontal tilt/trim axis above a predetermined threshold and determining if a second propulsion device on the marine vessel is deployed. If the second propulsion device is deployed, the method includes retracting ...