US Patent Issued to Manufacture d'Horlogerie Audemars Piguet on Oct. 6 for "Fastening member for attaching a bracelet to a watch case" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,526, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Manufacture d'Horlogerie Audemars Piguet SA (Le Brassus, Switzerland).

"Fastening member for attaching a bracelet to a watch case" was invented by Aurelien Bouchet (Gilley, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a fastening member for a strand of a bracelet, adapted to be removably connected to a watch case. The fastening member has a housing in which are held a first and a second pad arranged so as to be able to slide in a direction transverse to the length of the strand to cooperate respectively with a first and a second pivot secured to the lugs of the watch case;...