US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on March 31 for "Horological movement comprising a striking mechanism provided with a flexible guide" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,204, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Horological movement comprising a striking mechanism provided with a flexible guide" was invented by Baptiste Hinaux (Lausanne, Switzerland), Jerome Favre (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Jonathan Meyer (Bienne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horological movement includes a striking mechanism of a watch including a vibrating element and a device for striking the vibrating element including a hammer fastened cantilevered to a structure of the horological movement through blades of a flexible guide. The blades are ar...