ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,262, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BULGARI HORLOGERIE SA (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Control device for a timepiece" was invented by Fanny Monfort (La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device (1) for a timepiece has a body (4) intended to rotate about a rotation axis (X) in a case middle (2) of a timepiece to drive a mechanism of the timepiece, and a crown head (5) movable in translation relative to the body, parallel to the rotation axis, between a first position and a second position. The body has a first coupling (46) and the crown head has a second coupling (53), arranged so that in the fi...