ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,781, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).
"Sympathetic timepiece assembly" was invented by Alain Zaugg (Le Sentier, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for permanent time setting of a sympathetic watch (200) by a sympathetic clock (100) forming a sympathetic assembly (1000) with the watch (200) which includes an hour display (4) and a minute display (5), a reference position of which will be defined, and the time-setting is executed only at request by action of a user on a control means (300) included in the clock (100) or the watch (200), or automatically periodically con...