US Patent Issued to Nivarox-FAR on June 17 for "Timepiece assembly and method for manufacturing the same" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,603, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nivarox-FAR S.A. (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Timepiece assembly and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Jonas Vannod (Bienne, Switzerland) and Christian Charbon (Chezard-St-Martin, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timepiece assembly including a first component and a second component assembled under stress, wherein at least one part of the surface of the assembly is coated with a protective layer intended to cover defects such as cracks or incipient cracks after assembly. It also relates to the method for manufacturing this assembly."

The patent was filed on July 19, 20...