ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,691, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).

"External component of a watch or of an item of jewellery and method for manufacturing such and external component" was invented by Anthony Schwab (Areuse, Switzerland), Lucien Germond (Giez, Switzerland), Ludovic Charvier (Montricher, Switzerland) and Vincent Laucella (Le Brassus, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external component (10) of a watch or of an item of jewellery, including a substrate (100) produced in a transparent material, said substrate (100) comprising an inner face (101) opposite an outer face (102), the external comp...