US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Feb. 10 for "Tillers for marine drives having grip restraining device" (Wisconsin, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,387, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Tillers for marine drives having grip restraining device" was invented by Scott G. Ahlswede (Plymouth, Wis.), Gary D. Needham (Stillwater, Okla.), Robert A. Podell (Slinger, Wis.) and Andrew J. Przybyl (Berlin, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tiller is for controlling a marine drive. The tiller has a base bracket assembly and a tiller arm which is extends outwardly from the base bracket assembly. The base bracket assembly is configured to facilitate yaw adjustment of the tiller arm, in particular into and between a variety of yaw positions relative to the...