ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,771, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CARTIER INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).
"Deformable watch case" was invented by Romain Moyse (Montlebon, France), Mathurin Kielpinski (Payerne, Switzerland) and Olivier Tirand (Morteau, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watch case includes a structure arranged to support a watch movement, and a middle with an outer envelope connected to the structure and arranged to house the structure. The envelope comprises a network of articulated elements which form an outer wall of the outer envelope. The articulated elements are able to move with respect to one another so that the outer...