ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,408, issued on March 3, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).
"Actuating mechanism for a flexible display hand" was invented by Lionel Matthey-De-L'endroit (St-Livres, Switzerland) and Marc Stranczl (Nyon, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for actuating a flexible display hand including a first drive pipe and a second drive pipe connected to a first end of a second flexible arm, the first and second flexible arms being connected to one another by a tip at their second end, the first pipe being mounted at a defined first prestressing angle, and the second pipe being mounted at a defined sec...