US Patent Issued to OMEGA on Nov. 3 for "Watch adapted to generate a sequential animation" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,876, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OMEGA SA (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland).

"Watch adapted to generate a sequential animation" was invented by Dimitri Fostinis (Moutier, Switzerland), Olivier Silvant (Macolin, Switzerland), Gregory Kissling (La Neuveville, Switzerland), Antonio Ventura (Ecuvillens, Switzerland) and Axel Schindler (Ins, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watch (10) including a case (11) including a middle (12) to which a crystal (13) and a transparent back (14) are fastened so as to form an internal volume. The watch includes a horological movement (15) housed within the internal volume of the case (11), incl...