US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 21 for "Timepiece having decorative plate and support plate" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,816, issued on July 21, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Timepiece having decorative plate and support plate" was invented by Hideo Kato (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timepiece is provided with: a movement having a plurality of timepiece components, and a dial having a decorative plate provided on the movement and a support plate provided on the decorative plate. The decorative plate has a decorative plate ring member provided with a decorative plate opening and a plate member coupled to a decorative plate inner circumference of the decorative plate ring member. The support plate has a support plate rin...