US Patent Issued to Montres Breguet on June 30 for "Actuation mechanism of flexible display hand driven by a clockwork movement" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,781, issued on June 30, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).

"Actuation mechanism of flexible display hand driven by a clockwork movement" was invented by Marc Stranczl (Nyon, Switzerland) and Lionel Matthey-De-L'endroit (St-Livres, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation mechanism (60) of a flexible hand (44) to which a clockwork movement applies a first angular rotation (Theta1), the flexible hand (44) including a first drive barrel (46) and a second drive barrel (50) connected to a tip (54) of the flexible hand (44) by a first and a second flexible arm (48), the first drive barrel (46) bein...