US Patent Issued to OMEGA on June 16 for "Timepiece resonator mechanism with flexible guide equipped with means for adjusting the stiffness" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,735, issued on June 16, was assigned to OMEGA SA (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland).

"Timepiece resonator mechanism with flexible guide equipped with means for adjusting the stiffness" was invented by Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating resonator mechanism (60) including a flexible guide (5) and an oscillating mass (2), the flexible guide (5) including two main flexible strips (4, 6) and a rigid portion (7). The flexible strips are joined to the rigid portion and the oscillating mass. An adjustment means adjusts the stiffness of the resonator mechanism, and includes a flexible elemen...