US Patent Issued to Brunswick on May 5 for "Propulsion systems and methods for controlling electric marine drives for a marine vessel" (Wisconsin, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,514, issued on May 5, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Propulsion systems and methods for controlling electric marine drives for a marine vessel" was invented by Mitchell J. Baer (Fond Du Lac, Wis.), Jared D. Kalnins (Neenah, Wis.), Robert R. Osthelder (Omro, Wis.) and Daniel A. Roske (Milford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling at least one battery-powered electric marine drive configured to propel a planing marine vessel includes receiving a control command to engage an efficiency control mode configured to provide propulsion efficiency of the electric marine drive at a planing speed of the m...