US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for automatically draining marine drives at multiple trim angles" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,763, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for automatically draining marine drives at multiple trim angles" was invented by Michael P. Dengel (Malone, Wis.), Christopher J. Van Dyke (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Lance W. Ziemer (Van Dyne, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for draining a marine drive at a plurality of preset trim angles less than a fully trimmed out angle is disclosed. The method includes receiving via a controller a request to drain the marine drive and operating a trim actuator via the controller to change a trim angle of the marine drive to a first trim angle amo...