US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on June 24 for "Device and method for adjusting the rate and correcting the state of display of a watch" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,623, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Device and method for adjusting the rate and correcting the state of display of a watch" was invented by Jerome Favre (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Michel Willemin (Preles, Switzerland), Jean-Jacques Born (Morges, Switzerland), Dominique Lechot (Les Reussilles, Switzerland) and Gianni Di Domenico (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for adjusting the rate of a basic oscillator of a watch arranged to oscillate at a nominal frequency N0, with a master oscillator generating an excitation frequency NE approxim...