ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,884, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGERE SUISSE (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"Module for controlling an electronic appliance adapted to withstand shocks" was invented by Daniel Paraschivescu (Grenchen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control module (10) of an electronic appliance including a push-piece (11) including a striker element (111), and a switch (12) adapted to occupy a connected state and an idle state. The striker element (111) is configured to drive the switch (12) into the connected state or into the idle state when the push-piece (11) is acted on. A shock absorber (116) is provided to ...