ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,207, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Operation apparatus for ship propulsion machine" was invented by Masatoshi Kimpara (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yuta Eto (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation apparatus configured to operate a ship propulsion machine includes: a remote control device including a holder and an operation lever swingably supported, and configured to perform a shift switching operation of the ship propulsion machine and an operation of increasing/decreasing a rotation speed of a power source of the ship propulsion machine; a gauge device including a display ...