US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on April 14 for "Horological regulating member having a balance spring and provided with temperature- compensation means" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,008, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Horological regulating member having a balance spring and provided with temperature- compensation means" was invented by Gianni Di Domenico (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Baptiste Hinaux (Lausanne, Switzerland), Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan (Boudevilliers, Switzerland), Jean-Luc Helfer (Le Landeron, Switzerland) and Pascal Winkler (St-Blaise, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regulating member (1) for a horological movement including an oscillating weight, for example a balance, and a balance spring including a flexibl...