ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,334, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CI Tech Sensors AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and method for detecting a machine-readable security feature of a value document" was invented by Christoph Reinhard (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for verifying a machine-readable security feature of a document of value, having: a transport device configured to transport the document on a transport plane, a radiation emitter that is arranged on a first flat side and emits radiation in the direction towards the first flat side, a sensor that is arranged on the first flat side and is configured to receive at l...