ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,887, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Shimano Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fishing information processing system, fishing reel, fishing rod, and fishing information processing program" was invented by Youhei Toake (Sakai, Japan), Shouji Nakagawa (Sakai, Japan) and Shu Kusuda (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing information processing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires prescribed fishing information, a determination unit that determines an event occurred based on the prescribed fishing information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a first storage control unit that causes a first storage unit to store the ...