ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,666, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Alitheon Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Securing composite objects using digital fingerprints" was invented by David Justin Ross (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a combination of digital fingerprint authentication techniques, processes, programs, and hardware to facilitate highly reliable authentication of a wide variety of composite physical objects. "Composite" in this case means that there are distinct regions of the object that must be authenticating individually and in tandem to authenticate the entire object. Preferably, a template is stored that defines for a...