US Patent Issued to MECO on March 17 for "Swaging tool forming a stamp, and associated stamping process" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,666, issued on March 17, was assigned to MECO SA (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"Swaging tool forming a stamp, and associated stamping process" was invented by Julien Bonenfant (Bienne, Switzerland), Lucien Willemin (Bassecourt, Switzerland) and Remy Thiry (Les Breseux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swaging tool (1) forming a stamp, including a lower unit (2) and an upper unit, the lower unit (2) forming a bed to receive the metal movement-blank (12), the upper unit (4) being equipped with an upper die, to swage the metal movement-blank (12) in place in the bed of the lower unit (2), and mounted movable along a movement axis. Th...