ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,506, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).

"Watch with sliding display" was invented by Pierpasquale Tortora (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watch includes a smart wristband at least a smart screen arranged to be moved and disposed in a given location along the smart wristband. The smart wristband includes a wristband, a guide included in the wristband extending along a length of the wristband, the guide being configured to guide processed data along the wristband to the smart screen, and a processing unit configured to transmit, via a second comm...