ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,182, issued on May 5.

"Angled planar board and set configured to avoid fishing line entanglement" was invented by Marty Gale Price (Monroe, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and process for entanglement avoidance of multiple fishing lines being cast and driven from the motivation of a fishing boat or a stream of moving water such as a creek or river involving individual fishing line director components designed to utilize the relative mass flow of water around it for the separation of adjacent fishing line directors and accomplishing it's stable relative position behind a boat or moving water source via setting of it's forwa...