US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on June 9 for "Personal watercraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,561, issued on June 9, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Personal watercraft" was invented by Toshio Araki (Akashi, Japan) and Yuki Nakamura (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal watercraft includes a ship body and a recovery water passage. The ship body includes a deck and a hull. The recovery water passage is provided in the hull, and includes a water intake opening through which water can be taken in when the ship body plains on a water surface, and a discharge opening through which the taken water is discharged. The recovery water passage is formed with a filter accommodation space that accom...