US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on Nov. 3 for "External part component of a watch comprising a photovoltaic cell and watch including said external part component" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,878, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"External part component of a watch comprising a photovoltaic cell and watch including said external part component" was invented by Sargis Hakobyan (Boudry, Switzerland), Alain Jornod (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Francois Gueissaz (Cormondreche, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external part component (10) of a watch including a photovoltaic cell (20) including an elementary solar cell (21) interposed between two electrodes, one of which is an upper electrode (22) arranged over a face of the elementary solar cell (2...