ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,160, issued on Sept. 15.
"Interior mount steerable jet drive" was invented by Richard R. Bloom Jr. (Jacksonville Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The flush-mount multi-jet bow drive of this invention features a fixed X-shaped jet system made up of four or more fixed jet tubes mounted below a single impeller. The invention provides an isolated or divided water supply from the impeller to one or a combination of two jets in the X pattern for total 360 degree propulsion. In order to control which jets are supplied with water for propulsion, there is an angled interior jet nozzle capable of rotating 360 degrees. The jet nozzle...