US Patent Issued to LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 21 for "Methods and systems for determining the authenticity of a component" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,398, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL INC. (Lexington, Ky.).

"Methods and systems for determining the authenticity of a component" was invented by Samuel Davidson (Lexington, Ky.), James Howard Ellis (Lexington, Ky.), Zachary Nathan Fister (Lexington, Ky.), Timothy John Rademacher (Richmond, Ky.) and Jennifer Topmiller Williams (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining trust in a supply item in an imaging device for verifying other supply items installed in the imaging device via an algorithm, wherein the imaging device has a plurality of installed supply items. The method comprise...