US Patent Issued to Johnson Outdoors on Oct. 27 for "Braking system for a pedal drive system for watercraft" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,069, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Johnson Outdoors Inc. (Racine, Wis.).

"Braking system for a pedal drive system for watercraft" was invented by Timothy A. Bragg (Winterport, Maine), Geoffrey Michael Bergmark (Bangor, Maine), Sean Rusch (Cedarburg, Wis.), Sheng-Yiung Lin (Pingtung County, Taiwan), Mao-Hua Hung (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chen-Lun Hung (Pingtung County, Taiwan), Chih Ching Chen (Pingtung County, Taiwan) and Chia-Yu Ke (Pingtung County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Braking arrangements for inhibiting pedals of a pedal drive system for a watercraft from rotating when an assist drive train of the pedal drive...