US Patent Issued to GLOBERIDE on Oct. 20 for "Fishing rod" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,527, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GLOBERIDE Inc. (Tokyo).

"Fishing rod" was invented by Kosuke Ushinohama (Higashikurume, Japan), Kenji Harada (Higashikurume, Japan) and Hiroshi Jojima (Higashikurume, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing rod in which a finger is easily hooked on a tip end of a front grip and grip performance can be improved, and includes a rod; a reel seat inserted to the rod; and a front grip inserted closer to a rod tip side than the reel seat, in which the front grip comprises a tubular grip main body portion to which the rod is inserted, and a protrusion portion that is convex over a circumferenti...