ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,000, issued on May 20, was assigned to OMEGA SA (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland).
"Insert for a watch wristlet" was invented by Philippe Schaller (Delemont, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert for a strand of a watch wristlet to manually lock and unlock the connection between the strand a strip of a watch case, including a body and a latch, the body having a parallelepiped portion extended by a hook-shaped portion forming a housing for the strip, and the parallelepiped portion configured to be secured to the strand. The latch is hinged to the body to cause it to pivot around a hinge axis and includes a closing wall for clo...