US Patent Issued to Graco Minnesota on Sept. 23 for "Marine propeller system with high torque drive" (Arizona, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,903, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Graco Minnesota Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Marine propeller system with high torque drive" was invented by Thomas F. Janecek (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Jeremy Scott Reynolds (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Robert J. Lind (Robbinsdale, Minn.), Timothy S. Roman (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Tyler K. Williams (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid moving apparatus includes an electric motor having a rotor and a stator and a propeller. The rotor rotates relative to the stator on an axis to generate a rotational output. The rotational output is provided to the propeller to power the marine propulsion apparatus...