US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on March 24 for "Item made of precious cermet" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,201, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Item made of precious cermet" was invented by Gregory Kissling (La Neuveville, Switzerland), Denis Vincent (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Stephane Lauper (Cortaillod, Switzerland) and Bernard Bertheville (Sion, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item produced in a cermet material including by weight between 85 and 94% of a ceramic phase and between 6 and 15% of a metal binder phase, the ceramic phase mostly including a tungsten carbide phase and optionally one or more phases of one or more secondary carbides selected f...