ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,786, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TRUEMED OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for identifying authenticity of an object" was invented by Tuomas Kannas (Espoo, Finland), Oskari Heikel (Espoo, Finland), Hemmo Latvala (Espoo, Finland), Nicola Piccinini (Espoo, Finland) and Olli-Heikki Paloheimo (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying authenticity of an object, the method includes maintaining, in an identification server system, a reference image of an original object, the reference image and provided to represent all equivalent original objects, receiving, in the identification server system, one or more i...