ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,724, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ROLEX SA (Geneva).
"Transmission mechanism for an automatic winding chain" was invented by Pierre Villaret (Villy-le-Pelloux, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transmission mechanism (110) for an automatic winding chain for a timepiece (400) includes a series assembly of a first freewheel (40) functioning by wedging, a reverser (50) including at least one unidirectional coupling functioning by obstacle or at least one second freewheel (51a, 51b) functioning by obstacle, and a winding mobile mass (60)."
The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/518,432.
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