US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on Aug. 5 for "Method for manufacturing a timepiece component" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,693, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Method for manufacturing a timepiece component" was invented by Loic Oberson (Morges, Switzerland), Alexandre Netuschill (Le Cerneux-Pequignot, Switzerland), Stephane Lauper (Cortaillod, Switzerland), Gregory Kissling (La Neuveville, Switzerland), Stewes Bourban (Chabrey, Switzerland) and Pierre Sauret (Les Hauts-Geneveys, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a timepiece component. The method includes: providing a timepiece component (1); breaking the timepiece component (1) into a plurality of p...