US Patent Issued to Haelixa on July 1 for "Marked items and verification methods" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,885, issued on July 1, was assigned to Haelixa AG (Kemptthal, Switzerland).

"Marked items and verification methods" was invented by Michela Puddu (Zurich, Switzerland) and Gediminas Mikutis (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for stably immobilizing nucleic acid tracers onto surfaces of products and objects. This method is applied for the identification and authentication of the marked object or product. The present invention further provides specific coated articles and their use in product verification; processes for manufacturing such coated articles, methods for the verification of th...