ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,265, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).
"Electric power generation device for timepiece" was invented by Pierpasquale Tortora (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Cedric Nicolas (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Jean-Jacques Born (Morges, Switzerland) and Arnaud Maurel (Buttes, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-limited power generation device (100) for a timepiece (1000), including a manoeuvring member (1) manoeuvrable by a user against an elastic return (2) arranged to indirectly drive an electric generator (6) for generating an electric current for a limited time peri...