US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on June 16 for "Method for depositing a coating on an item, such as a clockwork component and item coated by such a method" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,736, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Method for depositing a coating on an item, such as a clockwork component and item coated by such a method" was invented by Christian Manasterski (Rochefort, Switzerland), Cedric Faure (Cortaillod, Switzerland) and Vladislav Spassov (Praz, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item including a substrate and a coating having a colour with an interference effect for the decoration and/or the protection of the item, the coating including: a first opaque layer covering at least partially at least one surface of the substra...