US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Sept. 16 for "Marine vessel equipped with steering mechanism for marine vessel, and steering handle for marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,592, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine vessel equipped with steering mechanism for marine vessel, and steering handle for marine vessel" was invented by Takuma Ito (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine vessel includes a steering mechanism to improve the operability of an operator that changes a speed of the marine vessel. The steering mechanism includes a steering wheel, a speed increasing paddle to accelerate the marine vessel, and a speed decreasing paddle to decelerate the marine vessel."

The patent was filed on Oct. 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/976,990....