US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on Feb. 3 for "Recharging device for an electronic or electromechanical watch and assembly thereof" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,501, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Recharging device for an electronic or electromechanical watch and assembly thereof" was invented by Alexandre Haemmerli (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Lionel Tombez (Bevaix, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recharging device for an electronic or electromechanical watch equipped, on the one hand, with a device for the storage of electrical energy for powering electronic components of the watch and, on the other hand, with an auxiliary source of electrical energy adapted to power the device for the storage of electrical...