US Patent Issued on Oct. 14 for "Hook keeper having a rotatable hooking pad for use with a fishing device" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,905, issued on Oct. 14.

"Hook keeper having a rotatable hooking pad for use with a fishing device" was invented by Jeffrey A. O'Krongly (Mercer, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a hook keeper for quickly securing a hook attached to a fishing line of a fishing device for protecting the hook itself and nearby objects during storage or transport. The hook keeper includes a rotating hooking pad, a retaining cap, an anchor sleeve with an internal compression plug, and a binding wrap for fastening the hook keeper to a line guide of a fishing device. The binding wrap passes through one or more slits in t...