US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 29 for "Marine drives and methods of clearing debris from a cooling water intake on marine drives" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,014, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Marine drives and methods of clearing debris from a cooling water intake on marine drives" was invented by Brett Bielefeld (Fond du Lac, Wis.), David A. Kobilic (Oakfield, Wis.), Kyle C. Hiner (Brandon, Wis.), Theodore J. Hanes (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and David J. Waldvogel (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine drive is for propelling a marine vessel in a body of water, the marine drive having a housing configured to support a propulsor for generating a thrust force in the body of water, and a cooling water intake configured to intake cooling...