US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Oct. 27 for "Watch dial and watch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,241, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Watch dial and watch" was invented by Tsubasa Fuji (Shiojiri, Japan) and Ami Kugimoto (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watch dial includes a base material made of metal with a surface having unevenness formed by machining, a first coloring film formed at the surface of the base material by a dry plating method, and including a stack of at least one layer of an oxide film or a fluoride film, and at least one layer of a metal layer, and a second coloring film formed on a part of the first coloring film by coating. The watch dial includes unevenness for...