ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,149, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Propulsion device for watercraft" was invented by Akira Kato (Tokyo), Takaaki Fushimi (Saitama, Japan) and Yasuyuki Yamazaki (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The outboard motor 3 includes an electronic control unit 33 that acquires a trim angle from a trim angle sensor and controls the actuator for trim adjustment. The electronic control unit acquires the trim angle at predetermined time intervals, stores each stably obtained trim angle in the memory as a stop trim angle, and compares each current value of the detected trim angle with the stop trim a...