US Patent Issued to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse on Aug. 4 for "Stop pawl for horological movement" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,354, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"Stop pawl for horological movement" was invented by Julien Christan (Bienne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stop pawl for a horological movement, including a body provided on the periphery with a lug for latching with the toothing of a ratchet; a hub intended to cooperate freely in rotation with a fixed rod according to an angular displacement between an active position meshing the lug with the toothing of the ratchet and an inactive position, via intermediate positions; wherein the pawl includes at least one device for r...