US Patent Issued to BLANCPAIN on March 17 for "Mechanism for displaying periods of an annual cycle of a timepiece" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,683, issued on March 17, was assigned to BLANCPAIN SA (Le Brassus, Switzerland).

"Mechanism for displaying periods of an annual cycle of a timepiece" was invented by Bernat Monferrer (St-Prex, Switzerland) and Guillaume Boscaroli (Le Solliat, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for displaying the periods of an annual cycle (100) for a timepiece (200) capable of being driven by being dragged by a running train (10) of a horological movement (1), characterised in that the mechanism for displaying the periods of an annual cycle (100) includes: an indicator (110) indicating the periods of an annual cycle; an annual cy...