US Patent Issued to Blancpain on July 22 for "Time zone correction mechanism for a timepiece" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,827, issued on July 22, was assigned to Blancpain SA (Le Brassus, Switzerland).

"Time zone correction mechanism for a timepiece" was invented by Julien Leskerpit (Pontarlier, France) and Bernat Monferrer (St-Prex, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timepiece time zone correction mechanism is equipped with a manual control device including two counteracting manual corrector actuators setting in motion a time zone corrector associated therewith including a beak which is configured to bear against a relief of a time zone correction wheel assembly and to cause the assembly to move. The assembly includes a regularly spaced tooth...