US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Nov. 3 for "Propulsion systems and methods for controlling propulsion systems for marine vessels to reduce shift clunk" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,394, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Propulsion systems and methods for controlling propulsion systems for marine vessels to reduce shift clunk" was invented by Corey L. Bruno (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and David J. Belter (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a marine vessel to reduce shift clunk. The method includes receiving from an input device a demand for propelling the marine vessel in water and operating a first marine drive to provide propulsion based on the demand from the input device. The method further includes determining whether a preset criteria has been sat...