US Patent Issued to Brunswick on March 3 for "System and method for controlling heading of a marine vessel having trim tabs" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,290, issued on March 3, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"System and method for controlling heading of a marine vessel having trim tabs" was invented by Kenneth G. Gable (Oshkosh, Wis.), Samuel E. Rustan (Pickett, Wis.), Ryan M. Trost (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Steven J. Andrasko (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a heading of a marine vessel having first and second trim tabs and at least one marine drive is provided. The method includes obtaining first and second deployments of the first and second trim tabs, obtaining a speed of the marine vessel, and determining an expected yaw value ba...