ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,180, issued on March 3, was assigned to SHENZHEN BOSAIDONG TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Intelligent fishing reel" was invented by Zhiyuan Yu (Shenzhen, China), Le Xiao (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 data of the fishing reel in a first movement. The fishing reel also includes a computing device. The computing device can estimate a casting posture of a user of the fishing reel from a plurality of casting postures, based on the data of the fishing reel and a model classifying the pluralit...