ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,435, issued on July 22, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Outboard motor and marine vessel" was invented by Kimitaka Saruwatari (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tomohiro Hagi (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes a steering mechanism switchable between a state in which a pinion is rotated by a first drive source such that an outboard motor body is steerable within a first steering angle range, and a state in which the pinion is rotated by a second drive source such that the outboard motor body is steerable within a second steering angle range different from the first steering angle ra...