US Patent Issued to Omega on March 18 for "Timepiece or piece of jewellery or gemstone jewellery made of gold" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,769, issued on March 18, was assigned to Omega SA (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland).

"Timepiece or piece of jewellery or gemstone jewellery made of gold" was invented by Alban Dubach (Bienne, Switzerland), Gregory Kissling (Macolin, Switzerland), Stephane Lauper (Cortaillod, Switzerland), Denis Vincent (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Gaetan Villard (Cossonay, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timepiece or piece of jewellery or gemstone jewellery made of a zinc-free, germanium-free, nickel-free, cobalt-free, indium-free gold alloy, the alloy containing, in weight percent, between 75% and 77.5% of gold, between 0.5% and 3% of palladi...