ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,910, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GLOBERIDE INC. (Tokyo).

"Fishing reel seat" was invented by Kosuke Ushinohama (Tokyo), Kenji Harada (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Jojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a fishing reel seat for fixing a reel stand of a fishing reel comprising the reel stand a reel leg in an up-lock manner. The fishing reel seat comprises: a resin reel seat main body that comprises a fixing hood and a hollow portion into which a rod is inserted; a resin floating hood that is movable in an axial direction with respect to the reel seat main body; and an operation knob that moves the floati...