ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,641, issued on June 2.
"Method of wake surfing utilizing a wake boarding propulsion system" was invented by Kerry Wilkinson (Tempe, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wake surfing utilizes a marine vessel having a first propulsion device and a second propulsion device that produce thrust having thrust axes that are offset from one another or not parallel. A first propulsion device may have a thrust axis that is controlled to a first thrust offset angle with respect to the second thrust axis. This offset angle may direct a flow of water from the first propulsion device into a flow of water produced from the second propuls...