US Patent Issued to DELTA D & B INNOVATIONS on Dec. 2 for "Top-water lure inspired bill for jerk-string animation of a floating waterfowl decoy, and jerk-string pole" (Arkansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,573, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DELTA D & B INNOVATIONS INC. (Branson, Mo.).

"Top-water lure inspired bill for jerk-string animation of a floating waterfowl decoy, and jerk-string pole" was invented by Kirk Bock (Benton, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-plowing front wall is mounted crosswise across the breast of a buoyant floating waterfowl decoy for improving jerk-line life-like animation of the decoy. The water-plowing front wall has a broad width about the same as or twice as great as the decoy's body-width at the waterline. The water-plowing front wall has a low elevation that, when the decoy is at rest, the low...