ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,453, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC.
"Anti-counterfeiting system for bottled products" was invented by Zhisheng Chen (Overland Park, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container, a closure, and a product system. The system comprises the container; the closure; the product stored in the container and retained within the container by the closure; a first ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chip affixed between the container and the closure in such a way that removing the closure destroys an antenna of the first AEPH chip, wherein the first AEPH chip stores a first authentication code; and a s...