US Patent Issued on April 29 for "Fishing lure" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,994, issued on April 29.

"Fishing lure" was invented by Martin Dominic Bossone III (North Royalton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing lure includes a longitudinal body, a pair of wing bars coupled at first ends thereof to the body by hinge pins and configured to hingedly rotate in a posterior and anterior direction relative to the body, wings with a plurality of blades disposed thereon slidably mounted on each wing bar and configured to spin on each wing bar, and wing locks configured to stop the wing bars from rotating any further posteriorly that a position that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the body."

The ...