US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Jan. 20 for "Tillers for marine drives having ambidextrous functionality" (Wisconsin, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,571, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Tillers for marine drives having ambidextrous functionality" was invented by Gary D. Needham (Stillwater, Okla.), Scott G. Ahlswede (Plymouth, Wis.), Ronald L. Hall (Hartford, Wis.), 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 a marine drive. The tiller has a tiller arm and a grip on the tiller arm, the grip being rotatable out of a center position to control speed of the marine drive. The grip is operable in a right-hand mode in which the grip is only rotatable in a right-hand rotational r...