US Patent Issued to MECO on Aug. 25 for "Corrector button and method for assembling such a corrector button onto a watch case" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,277, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MECO SA (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"Corrector button and method for assembling such a corrector button onto a watch case" was invented by Valon Hoti (Bienne, Switzerland), Remy Thiry (Les Breseux, France) and Samuel Geiser (Bienne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corrector button for a watch case including a socket of axis of revolution having a threading arranged on the outer rim of a portion intended to be fitted by screwing onto a watch case, and having a cavity extending between a first end of the socket and a second end of the socket; a movable control rod engaged in the cavity ...