US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Oct. 14 for "Electronic watch and electronic watch control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,147, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Electronic watch and electronic watch control method" was invented by Takuya Tanabe (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic watch includes hands, a stepping motor, a drive circuit, a controller, a current detection circuit that detects a current value flowing through the drive circuit, and a storage unit that stores polarity information of a drive pulse output from the controller to the drive circuit, wherein the controller initializes the polarity information stored in the storage unit when the storage unit is initialized, outputs a polarity de...