US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Feb. 3 for "Authenticating packaged products" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,682, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Authenticating packaged products" was invented by Thalia May Laing (Bristol, Great Britain), Christopher Ian Dalton (Bristol, Great Britain), Gabriel Scott McDaniel (Boise, Idaho) and Paul L. Jeran (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations provide a computer program product for authenticating a number of grouped product-packaging pairs, in which each product-packaging pair comprises a respective message, associated with a respective product, and a respective signature associated with the message; the computer program ...