ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,330, issued on April 7, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).
"Date display device" was invented by Peter Hyde (Le Sentier, Great Britain), Marc Stranczl (Nyon, Switzerland), Lionel Matthey-De-L'Endroit (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Rene Piguet (St-Livres, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A date display device (10) including: a dial (11) including date indications in the form of a character scale (15), of which a part is of apertures (150), a mobile index (12) with respect to the dial (11); a date mechanism configured to move the index (12) by one step per day, such that each position occu...