US Patent Issued to Smart Engines Service on Feb. 10 for "Scanner with multispectral authentication system" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,861, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Smart Engines Service LLC (Moscow).

"Scanner with multispectral authentication system" was invented by Vladimir Viktorovich Arlazarov (Moscow), Aleksej Valeryevich Bogomolov (Moscow), Dmitry Petrovich Nikolaev (Moscow), Oleg Anatolyevitch Slavin (Moscow) and Sergey Aleksandrovich Usilin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional scanners are incapable of reading holographic images, optically variable ink, and/or optically variable devices. Accordingly, an embodiment of a scanner is disclosed that utilizes a frame underlying a glass pane on which an identity document, such as a passport...