ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,385, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).
"Transportable outboard motors" was invented by Todd D. Dannenberg (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Matthew Z. Seta (Fond Du Lac, Wis.), Scott G. Ahlswede (Plymouth, Wis.), Gary D. Needham (Stillwater, Okla.), Robert A. Podell (Slinger, Wis.), Andrew J. Przybyl (Berlin, Wis.) and Matthew S. Dawes (Stillwater, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportable outboard motor has a midsection and a tiller extending forwardly from the midsection. The tiller is pivotable about a lateral tilt axis into a downward tilt position in which the tiller is oriented transversely to th...