ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,891, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GLOBERIDE Inc. (Tokyo).
"Reel seat" was invented by Shintaro Nakagawa (Higashikurume, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reel seat includes a seat main body including a reel leg placement portion, a fixed hood formed on one end side of the placement portion in an axial direction and fixes one end of the reel leg, and a male screw portion formed on another end side of the placement portion in the axial direction. A nut member that is screwed to the male screw portion and a floating hood that approaches/separates from the fixed hood by a rotation operation of the nut member are disposed in th...