US Patent Issued to NIVAROX-FAR on May 20 for "Flexible horological component, particularly for an oscillator mechanism, and horological movement including such a component" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,589, issued on May 20, was assigned to NIVAROX-FAR S.A. (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Flexible horological component, particularly for an oscillator mechanism, and horological movement including such a component" was invented by Pierre Cusin (Villars-Burquin, Switzerland) and Christian Charbon (Chezard-St-Martin, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible horological component for an oscillator mechanism of a horological movement, the component extending along a principal plane (P) and including at least a part made of a composite material (1), the composite material (1) including a matrix (2) and a multitude of nanotubes or n...