ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,611, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).
"Unique identification and authentication of products" was invented by Norbert Windhab (Hofheim, Germany), Kevin Burton (Hoover, Ala.), Paul Joseph Spencer (Oberursel, Germany), Jessica Muller-Albers (Darmstadt, Germany), Andrea Engel (Birmingham, Ala.), Peter Niepoth (Gross-Umstadt, Germany), Rudiger Alexowsky (Zahna-Elster, Germany), Julia Lyubina (Dresden, Germany), Christoph Brucher (Eschborn, Germany), Carsten Dentler (Bad Homburg, Germany) and Andreas Karau (Gelnhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of unambiguous identification...