ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,376, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Security article authentication" was invented by William D. Houck (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Adam Scheer (Princeton, N.J.) and Markus Bilger (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device may cause light to be emitted at a security article by one or more light emission devices of the user device. The user device may obtain from a first set of one or more optical sensor devices of the user device first sensor data associated with the security article, and may obtain from a second set of one or more optical sensor devices of the user device ...