Patents by Inventor Peter Samuel Atherton
Peter Samuel Atherton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10038555Abstract: In a system and method of completing a transaction over a network, a personal electronic device (PED) receives transaction information; captures biometric information from the PED user; and uses such information to identify if the user is an authorized user of the PED. If the captured biometric information identifies an authorized user of the PED, the PED: enables a first one of a pair of cryptographic keys stored on the PED corresponding to the identified authorized user; generates a digital signature for the transaction using the enabled first key; generates an authenticated transaction request using the received transaction information; and transmits the authenticated transaction request to a transaction approval center via the network. The transaction approval center uses the authenticated transaction request to complete the transaction; and the PED receives confirmation regarding the transaction from the transaction approval center.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: MIKOH CORPORATIONInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Patent number: 9867042Abstract: Disclosed is a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag comprising: an RFID functional portion configured to enable wireless communication between the RFID tag and an RFID reader; a data processing functional portion with asymmetric cryptographic capability; and a power source configured to power the data processing functional portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: MIKOH CORPORATIONInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20150046707Abstract: In a system and method of completing a transaction over a network, a personal electronic device (PED) receives transaction information; captures biometric information from the PED user; and uses such information to identify if the user is an authorized user of the PED. If the captured biometric information identifies an authorized user of the PED, the PED: enables a first one of a pair of cryptographic keys stored on the PED corresponding to the identified authorized user; generates a digital signature for the transaction using the enabled first key; generates an authenticated transaction request using the received transaction information; and transmits the authenticated transaction request to a transaction approval center via the network. The transaction approval center uses the authenticated transaction request to complete the transaction; and the PED receives confirmation regarding the transaction from the transaction approval center.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: MIKOH CorporationInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20140286491Abstract: Disclosed is a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag comprising: an RFID functional portion configured to enable wireless communication between the RFID tag and an RFID reader; a data processing functional portion with asymmetric cryptographic capability; and a power source configured to power the data processing functional portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: MIKOH CorporationInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Patent number: 8843760Abstract: A biometric and cryptographic processing unit includes a biometric receiver receiving biometric information of a BCU user. A biometric unit of the BCU has a store of biometric information of an authorized BCU user and compares received biometric information with the stored biometric information to determine if the user is an authorized BCU user. A cryptographic unit generates/stores an asymmetric cryptographic public/private key pair associated with each authorized BCU user. An input/output port allows encrypted/unencrypted data to be input to/output from the BCU. The cryptographic unit operates in response to a specific authorized user giving permission to undertake a specific cryptographic operation on data input to the BCU only upon the specific authorized user being determined as an authorized BCU user, whereby a specific private key corresponding to the specific authorized user is enabled for use in the specific cryptographic operation after which the specific private key is disabled.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Mikoh CorporationInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Patent number: 8646198Abstract: A container to receive goods to be held securely. The container includes a hollow body with walls, and a lid with walls. A security assembly extends between one of the walls and one of the walls to provide evidence of opening and/or tamper. The security assembly includes a pair of inserts between which a tag (seal) extends that is altered if a container is opened or tampered with.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2009Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Mikoh CorporationInventors: Peter Samuel Atherton, David G. Rodriguez, Bruce John Semmler, Jeffrey Charles Robertson
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Patent number: 8589696Abstract: A biometric and cryptographic processing unit includes a biometric receiver receiving biometric information of a BCU user. A biometric unit of the BCU has a store of biometric information of an authorized BCU user and compares received biometric information with the stored biometric information to determine if the user is an authorized BCU user. A cryptographic unit generates/stores an asymmetric cryptographic public/private key pair associated with each authorized BCU user. An input/output port allows encrypted/unencrypted data to be input to/output from the BCU. The cryptographic unit operates in response to a specific authorized user giving permission to undertake a specific cryptographic operation on data input to the BCU only upon the specific authorized user being determined as an authorized BCU user, whereby a specific private key corresponding to the specific authorized user is enabled for use in the specific cryptographic operation after which the specific private key is disabled.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2010Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Mikoh CorporationInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20130305055Abstract: A biometric and cryptographic processing unit includes a biometric receiver receiving biometric information of a BCU user. A biometric unit of the BCU has a store of biometric information of an authorized BCU user and compares received biometric information with the stored biometric information to determine if the user is an authorized BCU user. A cryptographic unit generates/stores an asymmetric cryptographic public/private key pair associated with each authorized BCU user. An input/output port allows encrypted/unencrypted data to be input to/output from the BCU. The cryptographic unit operates in response to a specific authorized user giving permission to undertake a specific cryptographic operation on data input to the BCU only upon the specific authorized user being determined as an authorized BCU user, whereby a specific private key corresponding to the specific authorized user is enabled for use in the specific cryptographic operation after which the specific private key is disabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventor: Peter Samuel ATHERTON
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Patent number: 8381991Abstract: An RFID tag that is foldable about a generally transverse fold line. The line divides the tag into two regions. One region has an RFID integrated circuit and areas of electrically conductive material. The other region has conductive areas that provide an efficient RFID antenna. In a folded configuration the areas are operatively associated with the integrated circuit while in the open configuration the areas are not functionally associated with the integrated circuit. Accordingly in the open configuration the tag is disabled or its RFID performance substantially degraded. The tag can be reversibly altered between the open and folded configurations.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Mikoh CompanyInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20120131350Abstract: A biometric and cryptographic processing unit includes a biometric receiver receiving biometric information of a BCU user. A biometric unit of the BCU has a store of biometric information of an authorized BCU user and compares received biometric information with the stored biometric information to determine if the user is an authorized BCU user. A cryptographic unit generates/stores an asymmetric cryptographic public/private key pair associated with each authorized BCU user. An input/output port allows encrypted/unencrypted data to be input to/output from the BCU. The cryptographic unit operates in response to a specific authorized user giving permission to undertake a specific cryptographic operation on data input to the BCU only upon the specific authorized user being determined as an authorized BCU user, whereby a specific private key corresponding to the specific authorized user is enabled for use in the specific cryptographic operation after which the specific private key is disabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: MIKOH CorporationInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Patent number: 8169318Abstract: An RFID tag includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface. An RFID integrated circuit is disposed on the top surface of the substrate. A first electrically conductive region is associated with the top surface of the substrate and electrically coupled to the RFID integrated circuit. A second electrically conductive region is associated with the bottom surface of the substrate and electrically coupled to the first conductive region, the first and second conductive regions forming an RFID antenna. The RFID integrated circuit, first conductive region and second conductive region together provide an RFID function. An attachment layer is associated with the bottom surface of the substrate for attaching the tag to a surface. An adhesion modifying layer modifies the adhesion of the second conductive region such that the second conductive region is disrupted if the tag is tampered or removed from the surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Mikoh CorporationInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20110147256Abstract: A container to receive goods to be held securely. The container includes a hollow body with walls, and a lid with walls. A security assembly extends between one of the walls and one of the walls to provide evidence of opening and/or tamper. The security assembly includes a pair of inserts between which a tag (seal) extends that is altered if a container is opened or tampered with.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Peter Samuel Atherton, David G. Rodriguez, Jeffrey Charles Robertson
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Publication number: 20100230498Abstract: An RFID tag that is foldable about a generally transverse fold line. The line divides the tag into two regions. One region has an RFID integrated circuit and areas of electrically conductive material. The other region has conductive areas that provide an efficient RFID antenna. In a folded configuration the areas are operatively associated with the integrated circuit while in the open configuration the areas are not functionally associated with the integrated circuit. Accordingly in the open configuration the tag is disabled or its RFID performance substantially degraded. The tag can be reversibly altered between the open and folded configurations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2006Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20080272885Abstract: The RF antenna portion and the RFID electronics portion of an RFID tag are produced separately and assembled on the item to be tagged. This reduces the overall cost of the RFID tagging process, in addition to providing other benefits. Specifically, the RF antenna is pre-applied to an item that is to be tagged and the RFID electronics are applied separately to the item in the form of a discrete RFID electronics module that couples to the pre-applied RF antenna to provide an RFID capability for the item.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2005Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: MIKOH CorporationInventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20080245791Abstract: A container enclosing an interior and having at least one door that can be displaced from a closed position preventing access to the interior, and an open position providing access to the interior; the container including: a first recess, the recess being in the door; an insert projecting into the recess so as to extend outwardly therefrom to provide an insert portion outside the slot; a second recess, the second recess being in a part of the container other than the door; a second insert, the second insert projecting inwardly of the second recess so as to extend outwardly therefrom to provide an insert portion outside the second recess; and wherein when the door is in the closed position the portions are adjacently located so that when secured together movement of the door toward the open position is inhibited.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2006Publication date: October 9, 2008Inventor: Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20020131174Abstract: A diffraction surface and a method of making the surface. The surface may be applied to labels and other items to identify the origin of the goods to which the label is attached. The surface can include a block grating including ridges and recesses in the enclosed squares or rectangles. The diffraction grating is manufactured by processing a data stream indicative of the image, including obtaining a Fourier Transform of the data stream and preferably clipping and quantising the data stream, and deforming a plate surface in accordance with the data stream. Also claimed is a diffraction grating having spaced first and second portions each producing an image on a receiving surface in response to illumination by a reading light beam, configured such that when the reading light beam moves from the first to the second portion, a change occurs in the first image to produce the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2001Publication date: September 19, 2002Applicant: MIKOH TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Peter Leigh-Jones, Brian Frederick Alexander, Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20020044271Abstract: A diffraction surface and a method of making the surface. The surface may be applied to labels and other items, to identify the original of the goods to which the label is attached. The surface can include a block grating. For example, the surface could include a plurality of blocks which adapted when illuminated will produce a recognisable image on an intercepting surface. The diffraction grating is manufactured by processing a data stream indicative of the image. Processing of the data stream includes obtaining a Fourier Transform of the data stream. Preferably, the data stream is clipped and quantised.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Applicant: Mikoh Technology LimitedInventors: Peter Leigh-Jones, Brian Frederick Alexander, Peter Samuel Atherton
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Publication number: 20020036826Abstract: A diffraction surface and a method of making the surface. The surface may be applied to labels and other items to identify the origin of the goods to which the label is attached. The surface can include a block grating including ridges and recesses in the enclosed squares or rectangles. The diffraction grating manufactured by processing a data stream indicative of the image including obtaining a Fourier Transform of the data stream and preferably clipping and quantising the data stream, and deforming a plate surface in accordance with the data stream. Also claimed is a diffraction grating having spaced first and second portions each producing an image on a receiving surface in response to illumination by a reading light beam, configured such that when the reading light beam moves from the first to the second portion, a change occurs in the first image to produce the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Applicant: Mikoh Technology LimitedInventors: Peter Leigh-Jones, Brian Frederick Alexander, Peter Samuel Atherton
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Patent number: 5751412Abstract: A viewing device to aid in authenticating an optical surface. The device includes a laser diode which produces a beam of light. The device includes a viewing screen which receives a diffracted image produced by the beam illuminating the surface. The device further includes a lens system which causes the diffracted beam to be focused on the viewing screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1995Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: Mikoh Technology LimitedInventors: Graham Duell, Graeme Bullock, Daphne Flynn, Steven Martinuzzo, Belinda Stening, Peter Samuel Atherton