US Patent Issued to Brunswick on June 2 for "Steering system and method controlling steering for a marine vessel" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,649, issued on June 2, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Steering system and method controlling steering for a marine vessel" was invented by Matthew W. Snyder (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and Aaron J. Ward (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling steering on a marine vessel includes a steering wheel movable within a fixed rotation range between a first fixed end stop and a second fixed end stop, a steering actuator configured to rotate the steerable component about the steering axis between a first steering limit and a second steering limit, and a controller configured to detect that the steering ...