Method for article authentication
AssigneeChameleon Innovations Australia (CIA) Pty Ltd
InventorThomas Fontaine
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Abstract
A method of marking an article for authentication, the comprising the steps of applying an identification mark to an article, said mark comprising an array of varying sized markings, where the combination of the shape, the spatial distribution and the varying sizes of the markings imparts a distinctiveness to the identification mark recording the identification mark in a database and associating information relating to the article with the identification mark in the database, wherein comparison of the identification mark on the article and the database enables the identification mark to be associated with the information relating to the article on the database.
Claims21
A method of marking an article for authentication, the method comprising the steps of:
- applying an identification mark to an article, said identification mark comprising a random array of varying sized markings, wherein a combination of a shape, a spatial distribution and the varying sizes of the markings imparts a distinctiveness to the identification mark;
- recording the identification mark in a database;
- and
- associating information relating to the article with the identification mark in the database,
- wherein comparison of the identification mark on the article with identification marks in the database enables the information relating to the article to be linked with the identification mark on the article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.