ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,530, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Device for displaying the weather on demand" was invented by Simon Springer (Berne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device for displaying the weather on demand. The display device includes a first indicator member mobile and having a representation of the sun. This representation of the sun is totally or partially concealed by a concealing element that is located on a second mobile indicator member when the user requests it and in particular via a control unit."

The patent was filed on Feb. 15, 2022, under...