ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,292, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GLOBERIDE INC (Tokyo).
"Fishing reel" was invented by Yuichi Umezawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing reel comprises a level wind device that evenly winds a fishing line around a spool rotatably supported between left and right side plates of a reel main body. The level wind device comprises a fishing line guide body through which a fishing line is inserted, and a rib that is provided in the fishing line guide body and prevents line entanglement, and the O-ring is disposed in the cylindrical portion so as to fill a gap between the rib and an opposing portion opposing the rib of...