US Patent Issued to PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE on March 25 for "Unidirectional clutch wheel assembly, in particular for horology" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,687, issued on March 25, was assigned to PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE (Geneva).

"Unidirectional clutch wheel assembly, in particular for horology" was invented by Pascal Humair (Geneva) and Jean-Baptiste Le Bris (Marignier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a unidirectional clutch wheel assembly that includes a first wheel, a second wheel coaxial with the first wheel and including an inner toothing, a rigid drive member rotationally fixed with respect to the first wheel and at least one rigid pawl connected to the rigid drive member by an elastic strip. The rigid pawl is locked against the inner toothing by the rigid dr...