ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,074, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Jet propulsion boat and method of controlling jet propulsion boat" was invented by Tetsuya Iwata (Akashi, Japan), Toshio Araki (Akashi, Japan), Yoshihito Uchino (Akashi, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Kuroyanagi (Akashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A jet propulsion boat includes a boat body; a main propulsion device including a jet device that jets a jet water stream from the boat body, and a direction change device that changes, in a lateral direction, an orientation of the jet water stream having been jetted; an auxiliary propulsion device provided on the ...