ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,817, issued on July 21, was assigned to PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE (Geneva).
"Calendar mechanism with season display for a timepiece" was invented by Samuel Tanner (Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland) and Julien Feyer (Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The calendar mechanism with display of the seasons for a timepiece includes a drive wheel, the angular position of which is representative of the date, a season display member and a season display drive member arranged to be driven by the drive wheel and to drive the season display member only during a predetermined time interval, of less than thirty days, every three...