ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,810, issued on May 27, was assigned to Wolfgang Seib (Schopfloch, Germany).
"Method for authenticating a high-value item" was invented by Wolfgang Seib (Schopfloch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating a high-value item, wherein an optically identifiable code is generated and applied to the item by being integrated into a surface region of the item that is provided with graphics or a surface structure, wherein the code is in the form of a two-dimensional arrangement of code elements and the outline of the two-dimensional arrangement is adapted to the outline of the surface region or of part of a surface ...