ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,308, issued on May 6, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Boat" was invented by Keiichi Ohiso (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boat includes: a hull; a float that supports the hull; a suspension that is disposed between the hull and the float and absorbs a vibration transmitted from the float to the hull; and a conversion mechanism that converts an energy generated in accordance with a relative movement of the hull and the float in a vertical direction, wherein the conversion mechanism is arranged so as to sandwich a center of gravity of the hull in a forward-rearward direction."
The patent was filed on March...