Anti-counterfeiting serialization system
AssigneeAvery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
InventorsPaul A. Chamandy, John W. Moliski
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Abstract
An anti-counterfeiting serialization method. The method can include receiving an input serial number, locating a seed character at a predetermined position in the input serial number, determining, based on the seed character, a first output position for an incrementing character of the input serial number, determining, based on the incrementing character, at least one second output position for at least one remaining character of the input serial number, and generating an output serial number having the incrementing character in the first output position and at least one remaining character in the at least one second output position.
Claims20
A method of creating a label having a serial number for anti-counterfeiting comprising the steps of:
- obtaining an input serial number;
- locating a seed character at a predetermined position in the input serial number;
- determining, based on the seed character, a first output position for an incrementing character of the input serial number;
- determining, based on the incrementing character, at least one second output position for at least one remaining character of the input serial number,
- generating an output serial number having the incrementing character in the first output position and at least one remaining character in the at least one second output position;
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- printing a label with the output serial number.
A label having a serial number for anti-counterfeiting comprising:
- an input serial number;
- a seed character at a predetermined position in the input serial number;
- a first output position for an incrementing character of the input serial number;
- at least one second output position for at least one remaining character of the input serial number,
- an output serial number having the incrementing character in the first output position and at least one remaining character in the at least one second output position;
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- a label with the output serial number printed there on.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.