US Patent Issued to ROLEX on March 25 for "Device for displaying an indication of time or derived from the time and indexing device" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,688, issued on March 25, was assigned to ROLEX SA (Geneva).

"Device for displaying an indication of time or derived from the time and indexing device" was invented by Pierre-Alain Graemiger (Trelex, Switzerland) and Pierre Villaret (Villy-le-Pelloux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Jumper device (80) for a timepiece device (100) including at east one first arm (81) including a first beak (81a) for positioning a first mobile unit (10), at least one second arm (82) including a second beak (82a) for positioning a second mobile unit (20), an elastic element (84) for returning the first arm and the second arm to configurations posi...