ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,779, issued on June 30, was assigned to SEIKO HOLDINGS K.K. (Tokyo).
"Regulator, movement, and timepiece" was invented by Masahiro Nakajima (Tokyo) and Reiji Kimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a regulator capable of further improving time measurement accuracy as compared with the related art, and a movement and timepiece including the regulator. A regulator includes a regulator pin. The regulator pin includes a pair of regulator pin main bodies and a regulator pin base portion. The regulator pin base portion is formed integrally with the pair of regulator pin main bodies and is held by a regulator body. The reg...