US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 15 for "Outboard marine drives and cowlings for outboard marine drives having water management" (Wisconsin, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,162, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Outboard marine drives and cowlings for outboard marine drives having water management" was invented by Steven J. Amerling (Fond du Lac, Wis.), Keith W. Schmidt (Stillwater, Okla.), David B. Griep (Rubicon, Wis.), Duane Harding (Stillwater, Okla.) and Daniel A. Roske (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cowling is for an outboard marine drive. The cowling has a top cowl defining a cowling interior, a lid on the top cowl, the lid being movable (e.g. pivotable or slidable) into and between an open position providing access to the cowling interior...