US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on Nov. 11 for "Timepiece regulating member with a balance spring provided with means for gravity compensation" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,258, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Timepiece regulating member with a balance spring provided with means for gravity compensation" was invented by Gianni Di Domenico (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Baptiste Hinaux (Lausanne, Switzerland), Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan (Boudevilliers, Switzerland), Jean-Luc Helfer (Le Landeron, Switzerland) and Pascal Winkler (St-Blaise, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regulating member (10) for a horological movement including a balance, a balance spring including a flexible strip (2) coiled on itself in several turns, th...