ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,490, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Harry Winston SA (Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland).

"Horological display mechanism with separate displays" was invented by Berhnard Karl Lederer (Gals, Switzerland) and Cyrille Bernard (La Poueze, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horological display mechanism (100) for displaying variables on separate unit display supports (10), each enclosing a display indicator (901; 902) which is a first display (901) capable of moving in translation, or a second display (902) capable of moving in rotation, all of these unit supports (10) include indicators (901; 902) of the same kind, which are either fir...