US Patent Issued on Nov. 4 for "Method and device for securing an object and method for authenticating an object" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,824, issued on Nov. 4.

"Method and device for securing an object and method for authenticating an object" was invented by Jean-Pierre Massicot (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Zbigniew Sagan (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method (100) for securing an object comprises: a step of encoding a first message (301) in a two-dimensional barcode (303), the first message comprising at least a header identifying a certification resource and a signature produced by means of this resource; a step of generating a fragile anti-copy mark (304) encoding a second message (302) representative of the signature produced, the seco...