ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,285, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GLOBERIDE INC. (Tokyo).
"Reel seat" was invented by Masaru Akiba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reel seat of the present disclosure has a seat body including a reel leg placing portion and a tubular portion formed with an opening hole that a rear end portion of a rod is fitted in and fixed to. The seat body includes a floating hood moving in an axial direction to fix a reel leg on the reel leg placing portion, a nut member fitted in the floating hood to move the floating hood in the axial direction with the floating hood whirl-stopped, and a click mechanism provided in a fitting regi...