US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on Oct. 27 for "Timepiece provided with a mechanical movement and a device for correcting a displayed time" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,239, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Timepiece provided with a mechanical movement and a device for correcting a displayed time" was invented by Matthias Imboden (St-Blaise, Switzerland), Gerard Surmely (Villars-Epeney, Switzerland) and Lionel Tombez (Bevaix, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watch is formed by a mechanical movement incorporating a mechanical resonator. The watch comprises a display displaying the time and a correction device for correcting the displayed time, which is formed by a receiver for receiving an external correction signal wh...