ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,945, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to JT International SA (Switzerland).
"Method and system for identifying smoking articles" was invented by Patrick Debergh (Cressier, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating an aerosol-generating article includes the steps of imaging and processing at least one consumable section of the aerosol-generating article, correlating a current digitalized image with a reference image registered during production of the article, and determining, based on correlation results and a predetermined correlation criterium, if the article is a genuine product. An aerosol-generating sys...