ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,144, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ROLEX SA (Geneva).
"Horology dial foot, horology dial plate and horology dial" was invented by Daniel Fiammingo (Sciez, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foot (2) for a timepiece dials includes a plastically deformable element (23) arranged so as to connect the foot (2) to a dial plate by cooperation, in particular by obstacle cooperation, of the plastically deformable element (23) in the deformed configuration with a shaped portion (15) of a dial plate."
The patent was filed on April 26, 2022, under Application No. 17/729,559.
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