US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on May 12 for "Outboard motor and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,764, issued on May 12, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Outboard motor and marine vessel" was invented by Kimitaka Saruwatari (Shizuoka, Japan), Yu Wakamizu (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshihiko Okabe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroki Koga (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, and 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. The uppe...