ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,379, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ROLEX SA (Geneva).
"Device for adjusting the length of a wristlet" was invented by Philippe Di Piazza (Ville-la-Grand, France) and Teddy Grivet (Segny, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for adjusting the length of a wristlet includes: a cover (10); a link element (40) designed to be connected to a wristlet strand (9) and mounted movable relative to the cover (10) in the longitudinal direction in which extends a wristlet strand to be connected to the adjusting link element, such that this displacement of the adjusting link element (40) relative to the cover (10) enables lengthening or...