US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 15 for "Pontoon boats and methods and apparatuses for assembly and dissassembly of pontoon boats" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,147, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Pontoon boats and methods and apparatuses for assembly and dissassembly of pontoon boats" was invented by Kevin T. Farrell (Port Orange, Fla.) and Troy J. Kollmann (New Smyrna Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pontoon boat having a deck, a pontoon configured to float and thereby support the deck above a body of water, and a bracket assembly that couples the pontoon to the deck. The bracket assembly has a base bracket that is fixedly coupled to the deck and a hanger bracket that hangs the pontoon from the base bracket. The bracket assembly has a loc...