US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on July 14 for "Method for developing a resonator mechanism with a rotating flexible guide to reduce out-of-plane oscillations" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,436, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Method for developing a resonator mechanism with a rotating flexible guide to reduce out-of-plane oscillations" was invented by Gianni Di Domenico (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan (Boudevilliers, Switzerland) and Dominique Lechot (Les Reussilles, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of setting up a resonator mechanism for timepieces, including a structure and an anchoring block from which is suspended at least one inertial element subjected to return forces exerted by a flexible pivot inclu...