ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,507, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Outboard motor and marine vessel" was invented by Kimitaka Saruwatari (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomohiro Hagi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takuma Matsunaga (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes a steering mechanism including a pinion located in a central portion of an outboard motor body in a right-left direction and operable to rotate together with the outboard motor body, and a rack operable to linearly move to rotate the pinion, and extending along a forward-rearward direction of the outboard motor body."
The patent was filed ...