US Patent Issued to PLASTIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT on July 15 for "Fishing lure with reflective surface" (Arkansas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,970, issued on July 15, was assigned to PLASTIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Fishing lure with reflective surface" was invented by Tyler Duvall (Alma, Ark.) and Chad Warner (Muldrow, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an improved fishing lure comprises a fishing lure body having an approximately flat surface on the top side or bottom side of the body and a blade statically affixed to the approximately flat surface. The lure body may include a recess having a wall and a base, wherein the approximately flat surface is at the base of the recess, and wherein around a portion of the perimeter of t...