US Patent Issued to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse on Dec. 16 for "Protective ring for a horology movement and horology movement including said protective ring" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,674, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"Protective ring for a horology movement and horology movement including said protective ring" was invented by Julien Christan (Bienne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antimagnetic and antishock protective ring for a horology movement, intended to be fixed to a horology movement, the ring including a tubular body extending between a first and a second axial end and is made of a material having ferromagnetic properties and wherein it is adapted to form, with the first axial end, a stop limiting the angular displacement ab...