US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on June 10 for "Device for determining the position of a horological display" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,696, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Device for determining the position of a horological display" was invented by Jerome Favre (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Stefan Kalbermatter (Grenchen, Switzerland) and Hicham Farah (Sonceboz-Sombeval, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining a position of a horological display, the device including a control device coordinating a time base, a shape recognition device, and an optical acquisition device. The control device identifies the display and monitors its travel in order to code its instantaneous p...