US Patent Issued to SEIKO WATCH on Sept. 30 for "Watch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,828, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SEIKO WATCH K.K. (Tokyo).

"Watch" was invented by Kosuke Yamamoto (Tokyo), Kazumi Sakumoto (Tokyo) and Akihito Okumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention is to prevent a positional deviation of a hand while reducing power consumption. A watch includes: a plurality of hands; a plurality of motors configured to drive or brake the plurality of hands, respectively; a pulse generation unit configured to supply, to the plurality of motors, a drive pulse for driving the hands and a lock pulse for braking the hands; and a control unit configured to control an operation m...