ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,549, issued on June 9, was assigned to VOLVO PENTA Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Diagnostics system for a dual propeller drive unit" was invented by Samuel Brauer (Gothenburg, Sweden), Lars Wik (Savedalen, Sweden) and Johan Tell (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented diagnostics system for a marine propeller drive unit is provided. The diagnostics system comprising processing circuitry connected to a speed sensor system and to a control unit associated with the electric machine. The speed sensor system is arranged in connection to the differential arrangement to provide propeller speed data to the pro...