US Patent Issued to Pure Fishing on Nov. 3 for "Fishing reel motor brake" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,098, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Pure Fishing Inc. (Spirit Lake, Iowa).

"Fishing reel motor brake" was invented by Benjamin Philip Parker (Chardon, Ohio), William D. Sebastian (Northfield, Ohio), William Eugene Rabbitt (Chesterland, Ohio) and Robert F. Soreo (Cleveland Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing reel including a housing, a shaft supported in the housing and configured to rotate relative to the housing around a shaft axis extended in a longitudinal direction of the shaft, and a spool fixed with the shaft to rotate with the shaft around the shaft axis for winding and unwinding a fishing line. The fishin...