US Patent Issued to ROLEX on Aug. 11 for "Movement transmission system" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,814, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ROLEX SA (Geneva).

"Movement transmission system" was invented by William Carreno (Geneva), Vincent Lemosquet (Geneva) and Denis Rudaz (Segny, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The movement transmission system (90), notably for a timepiece calendar system (200), includes a driving includes a driving mobile (4) pivoted about a first axis (A4) and has a driving toothset (42) distributed over a curved profile (43); a driven mobile (7) pivoted about a second axis (A7) and having a driven toothset (72); an intermediate pinion (8) pivoted about a third axis (A8) and having a toothset (81) driven ...