ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,537, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).
"Sympathetic timepiece assembly" was invented by Daniel Matteazzi (Le Sentier, Switzerland), Alain Zaugg (Le Sentier, Switzerland) and Jerome Mace (Le Pont, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring data on a sympathetic clock (100) for setting the time of a sympathetic watch (200) at request. The sympathetic watch forms with the clock (100) a sympathetic assembly (1000). The watch includes an hour display (4) and a minute display (5), a reference position of which will be defined at a reference time, and the clock (100) perf...