Patents Examined by Gregory Newton
  • Method and system for authenticating objects and object data
    Patent number: 6397334
    Abstract: A system and method for authenticating an image of an object, include at least one identifier associated with the object, a receiver for interrogating the at least one identifier to produce identification information, a camera system for recording an image from the object including the at least one identifier, and a composite generator for encoding the identification information from the receiver along with the image acquired by the camera system, to produce composite data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Joseph Chainer, Claude A. Greengard, Paul Andrew Moskowitz, Alejandro Gabriel Schrott, Charles P. Tresser, Robert Jacob von Gutfeld, Chai Wah Wu