US Patent Issued to Shimano on Sept. 8 for "Lure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,588, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Shimano Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lure" was invented by Tatsuro Kawasaki (Osaka, Japan), Shin Yamada (Osaka, Japan) and Tadasuke Nakamichi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lure basically includes a body containing a cavity, a swinging part and a rod. The body is configured to move in a reeling direction. The swinging part is movably mounted in the body so as to be movable in the cavity after the body changes from a moving state to a stopped state. The rod extends inside the cavity in a thickness direction of the body with respect to the reeling direction. The rod has a pair of opposit...