Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, reagents, and apparatus for authenticating and identifying products. Methods of the disclosure are easy to implement but difficult to replicate, simulate, alter, transpose, or tamper with. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of authenticating products using a product authentication code defined by a frequency array of a population of entities, and an item identifier defined by the specific manifestation of the product authentication code.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 30, 2013
Date of Patent:
June 9, 2015
Assignee:
Authentiform, LLC
Inventors:
Thomas J. Mercolino, Darrell Jerome Freeman, Jr., Robert Brooks Stephenson, Hersh Ashok Tapadia
Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, reagents, and apparatus for authenticating and identifying products. Methods of the disclosure are easy to implement but difficult to replicate, simulate, alter, transpose, or tamper with. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of authenticating products using a product authentication code defined by a frequency array of a population of entities, and an item identifier defined by the specific manifestation of the product authentication code.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 30, 2013
Publication date:
May 1, 2014
Applicant:
Authentiform, LLC
Inventors:
Thomas J. Mercolino, Darrell Jerome Freeman, Jr., Robert Brooks Stephenson, Hersh Ashok Tapadia