ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,211, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Outboard motor and marine vessel" was invented by Kimitaka Saruwatari (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuhei Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akira Harabe (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes a shift actuator, a wire connector to allow a wire of a mechanical remote control to be connected thereto and operable to be moved by the wire, a shift detector to detect that the wire connector has moved to a neutral position corresponding to a shift state of a neutral state or a drive position corresponding to the shift state of a drive state,...