ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,610, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Comadur SA (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Method for manufacturing an ornamental hard material part provided with a polymer coating" was invented by Pierry Vuille (Les Emibois, Switzerland), Denis Bubendorf (Bevaix, Switzerland), Paulo Arede (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) and Johan Romand (Mamirolle, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ornamental part, for example for a timepiece, jewellery or telephone, in particular a watch case middle, and its manufacturing method, the part at least partly including a hard material having a Vickers hardness greater than 1000 HV, the method including the fo...