US Patent Issued to POLARIS INDUSTRIES on Aug. 11 for "Pontoon boat with tuning plates" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,463, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to POLARIS INDUSTRIES INC. (Medina, Minn.).

"Pontoon boat with tuning plates" was invented by Bradley R. Fishburn (Syracuse, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pontoon boat with a motor arrangement has multiple chines on the pontoons and has a plurality of chine wedges positioned in respective reverse chines. The chine wedges providing a optimal balancing of the performance characteristics of the pontoon boat. The pontoon boat may be performance tuned by positioning the chine wedges at alternate positions or utilizing alternately shapes, sizes, or orientations of chine wedges. The chine wedge m...