US Patent Issued to Crane & Co. on April 22 for "Micro-optic security device with absolute registration" (Georgia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,610, issued on April 22, was assigned to Crane & Co. Inc. (Dalton, Mass.).

"Micro-optic security device with absolute registration" was invented by Samuel M. Cape (Woodstock, Ga.), Jonathan D. Gosnell (Cumming, Ga.), Benjamin E. Bleiman (Cumming, Ga.), Jennifer Cowan (Marietta, Ga.) and Ryan Toole (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-optic security device (100) includes a planar array of micro-optic focusing elements (105) and a first arrangement of image icons (120), wherein each image icon (121) of the first arrangement of image icons includes a region of light-cured material. Further, the first arrangement of image ic...