ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,209, issued on March 31, was assigned to SEQUENT SA (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland).
"Connected, mechanical winding watch" was invented by Harry Guhl (Basel, Switzerland) and Adrian Buchmann (Henley-on-Thames, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic wristwatch that uses a logic unit (42) to control a time display (50, 54) and has a controller (48) that connects wirelessly to external devices (90) or to the internet (99). An energy harvesting system (25) captures energy created by the user's motion and stores it into a battery (30) or in a capacitor (32), from which it is used to power the logic unit, controller, ...