ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,882, issued on May 20.
"Fishing rod holder system" was invented by Nathanial Brent Erdmann (Cape Carteret, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing rod holder system for easily transporting, storing, and/or using fishing rods, including one or more rod holders and/or one or more accessory holders releasably mountable to a receiving member affixed to a separate structure. The one or more rod holders and/or one or more accessory holders can be attachable/detachable and swivelable/rotatable about the receiving member. In some embodiments, the positions of the one or more rod holders and/or one or more accessory holders can be fixed...