US Patent Issued to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse on Aug. 25 for "Micromechanical component, particularly a timepiece wheel, particularly an escapement wheel, the surface of which is optimised" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,278, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"Micromechanical component, particularly a timepiece wheel, particularly an escapement wheel, the surface of which is optimised" was invented by Serge Nicoud (Couvet, Switzerland), Samuel Vignier (Saint-Maurice-sous-les-Cotes, France), Sebastien Roder (Bienne, Switzerland), Jean-Luc Helfer (Le Landeron, Switzerland), Christian Charbon (Chezard-St-Martin, Switzerland) and Frederic Kohler (Avry-sur-Matran, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Micromechanical component, particularly a timepiece wheel, particularly an escapement whe...