US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on March 17 for "Bracelet and method for manufacturing such a bracelet" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,650, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Bracelet and method for manufacturing such a bracelet" was invented by Nicolas Francois (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Sophie Napoli (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bracelet including an upper strip and a lower strip forming at least one strand of the bracelet, the bracelet includes a flexible intermediate layer disposed between the upper strip and the lower strip, the flexible intermediate layer being formed by at least one encapsulated phase-change material having a transition temperature of between ...