US Patent Issued to Nivarox-FAR on June 10 for "Elastic retaining member for attaching a timepiece component to a support element" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,694, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nivarox-FAR S.A. (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Elastic retaining member for attaching a timepiece component to a support element" was invented by Ivan Hernandez (Cressier, Switzerland) and Pierre Cusin (Villars-Burquin, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic retaining member for attaching a timepiece component to a support element, includes an opening into which the support element is likely to be inserted, the retaining member includes rigid arms and elastic arms defined between connecting zones helping to ensure elastic clamping of the support element in the opening the rigid arms ...