ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,170, issued on July 8, was assigned to PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE (Geneva).
"Display mechanism" was invented by Cedric Fague (Bernex, Switzerland) and Marc-Antoine Sudan (St-Oyens, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a display mechanism for a timepiece movement including a first display wheel and a second display wheel, which are arranged to be coplanar, characterised in that the first and second display wheels are further arranged to be pivoted with respect to each other by way of at least one ball bearing."
The patent was filed on Aug. 20, 2020, under Application No. 17/637,948.
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