US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Oct. 6 for "Marine drive steering assembly systems and methods" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,897, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine drive steering assembly systems and methods" was invented by Ryan A. Fergus (Neenah, Wis.) and Andrew M. Sheely (Fond Du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling steering for a marine vessel includes sensing at least one position of at least one drive assembly on the marine vessel, wherein each drive assembly includes a marine drive, a mounting assembly configured to pivotably support the marine drive, and a steering assembly configured to pivot the marine drive about its respective steering axis. The method further includes determi...