US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Nov. 25 for "Outboard motor and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,554, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Outboard motor and marine vessel" was invented by Kimitaka Saruwatari (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuhei Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Akira Harabe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Genta Otsuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes a bracket, an outboard motor main body including an upper portion attachable to a hull via the bracket and a lower portion located below the upper portion and on which a propeller is provided, a first steering mechanism to rotate the upper portion in a right-left direction with respect to the hull, and a second st...