US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on Nov. 3 for "Timepiece including a microgenerator and a light source" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,877, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Timepiece including a microgenerator and a light source" was invented by Pierpasquale Tortora (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Baptiste Hinaux (Lausanne, Switzerland), Cedric Nicolas (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Jean-Jacques Born (Morges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timepiece including a microgenerator (100), formed by a stator (20) including permanent magnets (25) and a rotor (10) including coils (11) and at least one light-emitting diode (31, 32), which is powered, either directly or indirectly via an electrical and/...