ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,877, issued on May 20, was assigned to Icelander Inventions LLC (Prior Lake, Minn.).
"Ice fishing net" was invented by Eric Hansen (Prior Lake, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice fishing net apparatus that may be utilized to lift fish out of an ice fishing hole. The ice fishing net of the invention includes a hoop and net that is actuatable between a landing position and a netting position. The hoop has a round shape when viewed from the xy plane of an xyz coordinate system and further includes additional bends as viewed from the xz and yz planes such that the hoop conforms to a cylindrical sidewall of an ice fishing hole wh...