US Patent Issued to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse on July 22 for "Timepiece oscillator structure with a divisible element" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,826, issued on July 22, was assigned to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"Timepiece oscillator structure with a divisible element" was invented by Daniel Mallet (Le Belieu, France), Pierre Cusin (Villars-Burquin, Switzerland), Raphael Courvoisier (Corcelles, Switzerland) and Pascal Winkler (St-Blaise, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timepiece oscillator structure includes at least one divisible unit, which includes at least one component which includes at least one flexible blade or at least one blade with necks, joining two main units, each more rigid than the flexible blade or blade with nec...