US Patent Issued to SUZUKI MOTOR on Sept. 8 for "Outboard motor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,973, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Outboard motor" was invented by Tomokazu Hikosaka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes an outer propeller shaft extending in a front-rear direction, an inner propeller shaft extending in the front-rear direction and disposed at an inner peripheral side of the outer propeller shaft, a rear driven gear disposed at a rear side of a drive gear, a front driven gear disposed at a front side of the drive gear, and a case covering front portions of the outer propeller shaft and the inner propeller shaft, the drive gear, the ...