ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,556, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Outboard motor" was invented by Tomokazu Hikosaka (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes a power source, a drive shaft, a propeller shaft, a propeller attached to the propeller shaft, a case covering the power source, the drive shaft, and the propeller shaft, a water intake passage provided in the case, through which water is taken into the case from an outside of the outboard motor, a first pump configured to be driven by rotation of the drive shaft and to supply the water taken in from the water intake passage to the...