US Patent Issued to Brunswick on June 9 for "Gearcase assemblies for marine drives having replaceable nose caps" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,559, issued on June 9, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Gearcase assemblies for marine drives having replaceable nose caps" was invented by Brad J. VanRuiswyk (Waupun, Wis.), Jay P. Dehling (Oshkosh, Wis.), Steven D. Draves (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and Vinit Prabhu (West Bend, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearcase assembly for a marine drive has a gearcase having a torpedo housing and a nose cap on the torpedo housing, the nose cap being removable and replaceable relative to the gearcase. The nose cap has a through-bore for conveying water into the gearcase for cooling the marine drive. A retainer spring which ret...