ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,170, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Outboard motor" was invented by Takuya Matsumoto (Saitama, Japan) and Ryohei Matsuoka (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor, comprises a housing main body (34) configured to be attached to a hull (14) of watercraft so as to be tilted upward, a propulsion device (32) attached to a lower part of the housing main body, a lower case (35) provided on an upper part of the housing main body, an upper cover (36) fixed to the lower case and defining a motor chamber jointly with the lower case, a motor (22) received in the motor chamber and config...