ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,776, issued on March 11, was assigned to GLOBERIDE INC (Tokyo).

"Terminal control program, terminal apparatus, and reel information management system" was invented by Shuta Kano (Tokyo), Hiroya Nagasawa (Tokyo) and Yukihisa Miya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal control program according to the present disclosure causes a terminal apparatus to perform: receiving model information and version information that have been automatically transmitted from a fishing electric reel in response to a first request transmitted according to a user's operation; storing a reel control program of a latest version of the fishing electr...