US Patent Issued to SICPA HOLDING on Dec. 9 for "Method and a system for serialization of items, and recovering data from serialized items" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,889, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SICPA HOLDING SA (Prilly, Switzerland).

"Method and a system for serialization of items, and recovering data from serialized items" was invented by Frederic Deguillaume (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for serialization of items, comprising encrypting a serial number of each item using an encryption key k to obtain unique serial numbers and marking the unique serial numbers on the items. The unique serial numbers having a length L are included into a string of symbols having a length L', with L' larger than L, and marked on the items. A corresponding method for recovering a unique ...