US Patent Issued to Xerox on Oct. 28 for "Methods and systems for document authentication using ink satellites" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,316, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Methods and systems for document authentication using ink satellites" was invented by Varun Sambhy (Pittsford, N.Y.), Eliud Robles Flores (Rochester, N.Y.) and Guo-Yau Lin (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for verifying the authenticity of a printed document are disclosed. The methods include receiving an identification of a portion of the printed document that includes a document signature, and receiving a document signature corresponding to the printed document from a data store. The document signature includes images of on...