US Patent Issued to Nivarox-FAR on Sept. 22 for "Elastic holding member for attaching a horological component to a support element" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,052, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Nivarox-FAR S.A. (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Elastic holding member for attaching a horological component to a support element" was invented by Ivan Hernandez (Cressier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic holding member including a body provided with rigid portions and deformable portions each provided with a through hole, the member being intended for attaching a horological component to a support element and including an opening the contour of which includes three contact zones intended to come into abutment on the support element, the contact zones each being included on a...