ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,260, issued on June 2, was assigned to Shimano Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Guide for fishing rod" was invented by Yoshiyuki Kaminou (Sakai, Japan) and Kazuma Taniguchi (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide for a fishing rod, includes a rod body, a guide ring configured to have a fishing line inserted therethrough, including an outer circumferential groove along an outer peripheral edge located outside of the central axis in a radial direction of the rod, a guide frame fixed to the rod body extending outwardly in a radial direction of the rod and which has a frame including a ring-shaped wire material that holds the guide ring...