ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,561, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GLOBERIDE Inc. (Tokyo).
"Rear grip structure for fishing rod" was invented by Shintaro Nakagawa (Higashikurume, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a rear grip structure of a fishing rod that enables improvement of the degree of freedom in design and increase in the bonding strength. A rear grip structure of a fishing rod comprising a rod 2 and a grip body 1, wherein the grip body 1 comprises: a main body portion 10 comprising an enlarged diameter portion (first enlarged diameter portion 10b, second enlarged diameter portion 10c) whose diameter increases with distance from the rod ...