US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on July 8 for "Device for fastening and orienting a back on a middle for a timepiece" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,172, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Device for fastening and orienting a back on a middle for a timepiece" was invented by Joel Allimann (Vallon, Switzerland) and Simon Garcin (Salavaux, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a device for fastening a back on a middle portion of a watch. The back includes a cover arranged to form a bearing surface with the middle portion and a body arranged to rest in the middle portion. The device includes an indexing ring disposed between the back and the middle portion, and the ring includes at least one lower ca...