US Patent Issued to Chumbobber UnLtd. on June 3 for "Chum bobber" (Texas, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,877, issued on June 3, was assigned to Chumbobber UnLtd. LLC (Tomball, Texas).

"Chum bobber" was invented by Stephen Dale Carter (Nicholasville, Ky.), Phillip Brent Carter (Tomball, Texas) and Kevin Clark Jones (Hideaway, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chum bobber with a first member comprising an integrated buoyancy chamber and a first coupling apparatus and a second member comprising a chum chamber and a second coupling apparatus for physically coupling to the first coupling apparatus. The first and second coupling apparatus are adapted for coupling the first member and the second member and thereby trapping chum into the se...