ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,658, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to 1TRUEID S.R.L. (Chiari, Italy).

"Authentication method and system to verify the authenticity of a product" was invented by Raffaele Bini (Chiari, Italy) and Fausto Chiappa (Chiari, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication method to verify the authenticity of products, including associating to each product an electronic identification device having a unique identification code, selecting at least one piece of product information suitable to describe the product, associating to each identification code at least one respective and unique encryption key, encrypting the identification c...