US Patent Issued to LORIGE on Feb. 18 for "Method for manufacturing a carbon-carbon timepiece component" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,888, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LORIGE (Paris).

"Method for manufacturing a carbon-carbon timepiece component" was invented by Clement Etienvre (Rennes, France) and Emeric Paraud (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The manufacturing method comprises at least one processing step for a carbon-carbon composite part (100, 200). In a first variant, the method comprises steps for machining and a step for processing the part. In a second variant, the method comprises a crushing step for the part before the processing step and a moulding step after the processing step. Application to manufacturing timepiece components (170...