US Patent Issued to VOLVO PENTA on Nov. 3 for "Propulsion drive assembly with gas supply to mitigate fouling" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,379, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VOLVO PENTA Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Propulsion drive assembly with gas supply to mitigate fouling" was invented by Lennart Arvidsson (Kallered, Sweden) and Peter Granqvist (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion drive assembly for a marine vessel is described' The propulsion drive assembly includes a propeller drive unit for carrying and driving at least one propeller, a housing for connection to a hull of the marine vessel, a suspension mechanism attached to the housing and configured to suspend the propeller drive unit, wherein the suspension mechanism is movab...