US Patent Issued to ROLEX on June 17 for "Timepiece mechanism" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,602, issued on June 17, was assigned to ROLEX SA (Geneva).

"Timepiece mechanism" was invented by Denis Rudaz (Segny, France) and Vincent Lemosquet (Bons-en-Chablais, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The timepiece mechanism (800; 800') for correcting a timepiece function, includes a first lever (14) including a first cam desmodromic connecting element (14a), a correcting mobile (404), and a second lever (402), the second lever (402) including: at least one first element (402d) for guiding the correcting mobile (404), at least one first friction element (402b) in contact with the correcting mobile (404), and a second cam desmodrom...