ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,835, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to C2Sense Inc. (Watertown, Mass.).
"Luminescence imaging for sensing and/or authentication" was invented by Timothy Manning Swager (Newton, Mass.), Jason R. Cox (Ashland, Mass.) and Robert Deans (Grafton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions, articles, systems, and methods for sensing and/or authentication using luminescence imaging are generally provided. In some embodiments, an article (or packaging material of an article) is associated with an emissive material comprising an emissive species (e.g., a luminescent species). In some cases, the emissive species has an emission lifetim...