US Patent Issued to BLANCPAIN on June 16 for "Horological movement comprising a chronograph mechanism, in particular a jumping-second mechanism" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,740, issued on June 16, was assigned to BLANCPAIN SA (Le Brassus, Switzerland).

"Horological movement comprising a chronograph mechanism, in particular a jumping-second mechanism" was invented by Lilian Joly (Sirod, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horological movement (1) including a running train (100) driven by a first power source (150) and regulated by a regulating member (120); a chronograph mechanism (10) including a chronograph train (20) driven by a second power source (35) including a chronograph counter (23) having a counter wheel (231); a chronograph start/stop control device (30) configured to couple on demand the...