ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,795, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Display of security information based on splitting into images viewable at a certain reading distance" was invented by Alessandra Asaro (Rome), Chiara Conti (Rome), Remo Freddi (Ronciglione, Italy) and Roberto Ragusa (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for displaying security information to a user is provided. The present invention may include a security device configured to display a security information on a display surface. The security information may include at least one component having two images based on a spl...