US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on Aug. 25 for "Dial and method for manufacturing a watch dial" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,280, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Dial and method for manufacturing a watch dial" was invented by Matthias Imboden (St-Blaise, Switzerland) and Alain Jornod (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dial for a watch includes a semi-transparent photovoltaic layer having a lower face. The dial also includes an ink-based decorative layer printed on the lower face of the photovoltaic layer. The decorative layer includes a pattern including one or more time markers."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/176,343.

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