US Patent Issued to Brunswick on June 23 for "Marine drives and methods for clearing debris from a cooling water intake on a marine drive" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,225, issued on June 23, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine drives and methods for clearing debris from a cooling water intake on a marine drive" was invented by David J. Belter (Oshkosh, Wis.), Nicholas E. Nida (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Brett Bielefeld (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and Robert Dreyer (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine drive includes a drive assembly which is operable in a neutral mode, in a forward mode for generating a forward thrust force in a body of water, and in a reverse mode for generating a reverse thrust force in the body of water. A water intake is configured to receive cooling wa...