ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,722, issued on March 25, was assigned to SHENZHEN BOSAIDONG TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Fishing reel with intelligent braking" was invented by Huangshen Qu (Shenzhen, China) and Tianshi Cui (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing reel is provided. The fishing reel includes one or more sensors that can obtain a rotation frequency of a spool of the fishing reel during a casting. The casting corresponds to a casting mode of a plurality of casting modes. The fishing reel also includes a computing device. The computing device can determine a braking force corresponding to the rotation frequency and the castin...