ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,353, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TONNJES ISI PATENT HOLDING GMBH (Delmenhorst, Germany).

"Method for authenticating and/or validating the identity of an object" was invented by Albertus Jacobus Pretorius (Karalee, Australia) and Dennis Brandwein (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating and/or validating an identity of an object and information about the object, wherein the identity and the information relating to the object are stored in at least two, preferably three, four or more, data memories of a respective tag and these data memories are read out contactlessly by a reading device. The tag...