ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,359, issued on July 22, was assigned to SICPA HOLDING SA (Prilly, Switzerland).

"Security marking, method and device for reading the security marking, security document marked with the security marking, and method and system for verifying said security document" was invented by Todor Dinoev (Chavannes-pres-Renens, Switzerland), Jean-Luc Dorier (Bussigny, Switzerland), Xavier Cedric Raemy (Belmont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Benito Carnero (Preverenges, Switzerland), Evgeny Loginov (Renens, Switzerland) and Andrea Callegari (Ecublens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a security marking (100), a metho...