US Patent Issued to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse on Nov. 18 for "Portable object comprising a case, a removable bracelet and a system for attaching the bracelet to the case" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,682, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"Portable object comprising a case, a removable bracelet and a system for attaching the bracelet to the case" was invented by Roger Mueller (Kirchberg, Switzerland) and Dohan Schlichtig (Olten, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable object includes a case having a middle, a bracelet, and an attachment system for removably securing each end of the bracelet to the middle. The middle includes two longitudinal cavities to form a slide bar. Each end of the bracelet includes a fastening head that cooperates, by sliding, with ...