US Patent Issued to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse on April 21 for "System for adjusting an illumination function of a watch" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,964, issued on April 21, was assigned to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"System for adjusting an illumination function of a watch" was invented by Sylvain Huot-Marchand (Eschert, Switzerland) and Dominique Dubugnon (Saint-Prex, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for adjusting an illumination function of a watch including an external timepiece element with an autonomous lighting device, the system including a portable electronic device with a communication unit and a controller to control this communication unit, the lighting device being formed by an assembly of stacked layers connected...