US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on May 5 for "Outboard motor and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,511, issued on May 5, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Outboard motor and marine vessel" was invented by Yosuke Kato (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaya Oishi (Shizuoka, Japan), Masashi Nonaka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shintaro Aoyagi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes an engine, a fuel pump to draw fuel into an outboard motor body from a fuel tank installed on a hull, a temporary storage tank to temporarily store the fuel drawn into the outboard motor body by the fuel pump, a fuel injector to inject the fuel stored in the temporary storage tank into the engine, a temperature sensor on...