US Patent Issued to Montres Breguet on May 6 for "Micromechanical mechanism provided with a percussion actuation system, in particular for horology" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,714, issued on May 6, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).

"Micromechanical mechanism provided with a percussion actuation system, in particular for horology" was invented by Marc Stranczl (Nyon, Switzerland) and Polychronis Nakis Karapatis (Premier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micromechanical mechanism (1), in particular for an horological movement (3), the mechanism including a micromechanical device including a mobile element (8) needing to be moved mechanically to trigger its operation. Included is a system for actuating the device, the actuation system including a mobile striker (16, 17,...