US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on Aug. 4 for "Component for timepiece or piece of jewellery made of cermet" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,548, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Component for timepiece or piece of jewellery made of cermet" was invented by Bernard Bertheville (Sion, Switzerland) and Yann Fallet (Savagnier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component suitable for a timepiece or a jewellery item may be made of a cermet material including a carbide phase and a metal binder phase selected from among gold, platinum, palladium rhodium, osmium, ruthenium, and one of the alloys thereof. The metal binder phase may be present in a range of from 3 and 25 wt. % and the carbide phase may b...