ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,673, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BLANCPAIN SA (Le Brassus, Switzerland).

"Timepiece mechanism indicating a maximum value of a measured physical variable and timepiece comprising such a mechanism" was invented by Guillaume Boscaroli (Le Solliat, Switzerland) and Bernat Monferrer (St-Prex, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ambient physical variable measuring device (5) including an element configured to mechanically deform under the effect of a variation of a physical variable to rotate a physical variable measured value indication train including a physical variable maximum value display wheel (21). An i...