ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,824, issued on July 29, was assigned to IQS GROUP s.r.o. (Husinec-Rez, Czech Republic).
"Composite security element" was invented by Robert Dvorak (Prague), Petr Franc (Caslav, Czech Republic) and Roman Houha (Prague).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security element, e g. for an ID card (7) or passport, banknote, ticket, etc, comprises a plurality of superposed layers (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d) and a security image or object (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) comprising a plurality of discrete security components, each said discrete security component constituting or providing a portion of the complete security image or object, which portion is less than t...