ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,555, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Propulsion apparatus for watercraft" was invented by Naotoshi Nio (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion apparatus for watercraft, including a propulsion motor (M) supported by an upper case (10), a lower case (11) supported by the upper case so as to be rotatable around a steering axis, and rotatably supporting a drive shaft (22) for transmitting power from the propulsion motor to a propulsion device (13), a steering motor (30) received in the upper case, and a steering reduction gear mechanism (37) received in the upper case, wherein an outp...