US Patent Issued to BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS on May 19 for "Personal watercraft with steering damper" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,279, issued on May 19, was assigned to BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC. (Valcourt, Canada).

"Personal watercraft with steering damper" was invented by Karl Laflamme Lussier (Granby, Canada), Jean-Philippe Gendron (Granby, Canada), Benoit Larose (Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada) and Magali Bitsch (Saint-Francois-Xavier-de-Brompton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal watercraft has: a hull; a deck, a straddle-type seat; a motor; a jet propulsion unit; a steering column support; a steering column pivotally connected to the steering column support; a handlebar connected to the steering column; a steering arm connected to the...