ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,650, issued on June 2, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).
"Actuation system on a marine vessel and configuration method therefor" was invented by Matthew W. Snyder (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Aaron J. Ward (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Phillips L. Munter (Oshkosh, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation system for moving at least two devices on a marine vessel includes at least three actuators, wherein the at least three actuators include at least one pair of actuators configured to jointly move a first actuated device, a plurality of position sensors configured to generate position information indicating whether each one of the...