US Patent Issued to PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE on July 8 for "Timepiece comprising a vibration-amplifying device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,171, issued on July 8, was assigned to PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE (Geneva).

"Timepiece comprising a vibration-amplifying device" was invented by Quentin Benoist (Grand-Lancy, Switzerland), Sylvain Geiser (St-Cergue, Switzerland), Eric Le Gall (Nyon, Switzerland) and Alessandro Vandini (Tannay, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a timepiece including a case, a movement and a vibration-generating device intended to produce a sound, the latter two accommodated in the case, a device for amplifying the vibrations from the vibration-generating device, and a membrane receiving the amplified vibrations and generating a soun...