ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,950, issued on June 3, was assigned to Stegvision Corp. (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

"Product authentication systems, methods, and devices" was invented by Larry Elan Dyne (Calabasas, Calif.) and Daniel Tek-Jong Ryu (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing an image; analyzing the image to determine one or more encodable areas; determining a plurality of distinct serial numbers; adding the plurality of distinct serial numbers to a database; and producing a first plurality of first tags based on the image, each of the first tags including encoded information in at least one encodable area thereon, the...