US Patent Issued to GLOBERIDE on Sept. 23 for "Reel seat and fishing rod" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,287, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GLOBERIDE Inc. (Tokyo).

"Reel seat and fishing rod" was invented by Kyoichi Kaneko (Higashikurume, Japan), Yoshinao Kato (Higashikurume, Japan) and Masaru Akiba (Higashikurume, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reel seat attaches to a rod body and includes a main body including a reel leg placing portion with a reel leg, a fixed hood, tubular portion and movable hood on the reel leg placing portion; and a nut member on the tubular portion rotates the movable hood, wherein the tubular portion includes cylindrical and recessed portions partially cut out, the movable hood includes an engagi...