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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Walter Helm, Farmington, CT (US);
Lance Becker, Weston, CT (US);
Assignee:
Timex Corporation, Middlebury, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
368 47 ; 368 10 ;
Abstract
A wristwatch is set by optically transmitting time of day information from a wall clock or table clock to an optical sensor in the wristwatch. The time information is optically transmitted as sequential light pulses by controlling a light source, such as a light emitting diode (LED) in the wall clock or table clock.