US Patent Issued to KOENIG & BAUER on June 24 for "Method for authenticating a banknote having at least one printed area on the substrate thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,648, issued on June 24, was assigned to KOENIG & BAUER AG (Wurzburg, Germany).

"Method for authenticating a banknote having at least one printed area on the substrate thereof" was invented by Helene Dorksen (Kaltenkirchen, Germany), Eugen Gillich (Bielefeld, Germany) and Baris Gun Surmeli (Bielefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include authenticating a banknote having at least one printed area on a substrate thereof. An optoelectronic capturing device captures the at least one printed area on respective substrates of each of a plurality of copies of the same type of banknote to be authenticated and provides raw im...