ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,064, issued on June 23, was assigned to Brunson Marine Group LLC (Wilson, N.C.) and Fin-Addict Marine Inc. (Benson, N.C.).

"Flush mount dash system and method of installing the flush mount dash system" was invented by Robert Brunson (Wilson, N.C.), Brown Towles (Benson, N.C.) and Cody McLean (Benson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable flush mount dash system, and a method of installing the adjustable flush mount dash system is presented herein. The method includes mounting a floating spacer to a mounting frame of a dash unit, disposing the floating spacer and the dash unit into an inset framed opening on a rear surface...