US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on July 21 for "Outboard motor and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,480, issued on July 21, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Outboard motor and marine vessel" was invented by Kimitaka Saruwatari (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yu Wakamizu (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes a lower portion including a propeller shaft, an upper portion including a drive source to provide a rotational force to rotate the propeller shaft, a support portion to rotatably support the lower portion relative to the upper portion about a steering shaft and rotate integrally with the lower portion, a water pump assembly in the upper portion to supply water to the drive sour...