US Patent Issued to Johnson Outdoors on Feb. 10 for "Bidirectional wireless controls for marine devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,390, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Johnson Outdoors Inc. (Racine, Wis.).

"Bidirectional wireless controls for marine devices" was invented by Paul D. Salmon (Mankato, Minn.) and David M. Samek (Eagle Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a trolling motor operated based upon commands generated by a wireless remote control device and a wired foot pedal is provided. The controller is interposed between the trolling motor and the wired foot pedal to add wireless controllability to the trolling motor via the wireless remote control. The controller communicates with the remote control through a bidirectional ...