US Patent Issued to The Swatch Group Research and Development on Nov. 4 for "Timepiece with localized illumination" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,493, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Timepiece with localized illumination" was invented by Michel Willemin (Preles, Switzerland), Loic Curchod (Lausanne, Switzerland), Pierpasquale Tortora (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Simon Springer (Berne, Switzerland) and Cedric Faure (Cortaillod, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a timepiece including, in addition to a crystal (34), the following external elements: a back (2), a middle (1), a dial (3) and two bracelet strands (30), at least one of these external elements comprising at least one pa...