US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on March 17 for "Horological regulating member with flexible guide provided with means for compensating for pressure" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,682, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Horological regulating member with flexible guide provided with means for compensating for pressure" was invented by Gianni Di Domenico (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Baptiste Hinaux (Lausanne, Switzerland), Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan (Boudevilliers, Switzerland), Jean-Luc Helfer (Le Landeron, Switzerland) and Pascal Winkler (St-Blaise, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regulating member for a horological movement including an oscillating mass, for example a balance, a flexible guide including at least two flexible b...