US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Jan. 20 for "Water jet propulsion boat and direction changing device for water jet propulsion boat" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,570, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Water jet propulsion boat and direction changing device for water jet propulsion boat" was invented by Masato Takewaka (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water jet propulsion boat includes a hull, a jet generator, a direction changer, a steering device, and a shift mechanism. The direction changer is pivotable with respect to the hull about a first pivot axis extending along a first direction and about a second pivot axis extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The shift mechanism includes a first actuator...