ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,145, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).
"Orientable back for a timepiece" was invented by Joel Allimann (Vallon, Switzerland), Francois Erdemli (Colombier, Switzerland) and Enzo Agustoni (Cudrefin, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for fastening a back (1) to a middle (2) of a watch case (100), the back (1) being arranged to be driven onto the watch case (100). The device includes a casing ring (3) to which is connected at least one position pin (4), the position pin (4) being arranged to cooperate with at least one machining (10) in the back (1) so...