US Patent Issued to Malibu Boats on Nov. 3 for "Water sports boat with foil displacement system" (Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,357, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Malibu Boats LLC (Loudon, Tenn.).

"Water sports boat with foil displacement system" was invented by Cory Wade Dugger (Maryville, Tenn.), Rachael Marie Green (Lenoir City, Tenn.), Jeffrey Lee Predmore (Knoxville, Tenn.), Scott Thomas Ward (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Matthew Welton (Sarasota, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foil displacement system includes one or more foils that can be deployed and stowed. When deployed, each foil can exert downforce or uplift depending on its orientation. For example, each foil may be positioned to have an angle of attack that creates a downward force effectivel...