ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,934, issued on March 18, was assigned to KL-TEHO OY (Korpilahti, Finland).

"Fishing bait, a mouldable composition for manufacturing the fishing bait, a method for manufacturing the fishing bait and a use of the mouldable composition" was invented by Jari Kokkonen (Kalliola, Finland), Juha Siirtola (Vaaksy, Finland), Eberhard Dick (Neckargemund, Germany), Sonja Gottling (Heppenheim, Germany) and Sigrid Wirth (Neunkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a fishing bait, a mouldable composition for manufacturing the fishing bait, a method for manufacturing the fishing bait and a use of the moulda...