Tamper-Proof and Reusable High Security Seal
AssigneeNovatec, Inc.
InventorsFrancis Bourrieres, Clement Kaiser, Franck Bourrieres
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AssigneeNovatec, Inc.
InventorsFrancis Bourrieres, Clement Kaiser, Franck Bourrieres
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High security seal that can be reused an indefinite number of times because the authenticating part evolves in a chaotic manner each time the seal is opened and then put back into service. This seal is composed of at least two authenticators (1) and (2) at least one of which is movable with respect to the other into the open position. These two authenticators become fixed and stable in the closed position. In each new fixed position, the two authenticators cooperate to generate a new authenticating feature that is stored in a database in order to be compared during a check. This feature will be cancelled and replaced with another one when said seal is fraudulently or deliberately opened and thus will provide proof that it has been opened.
1) A high security seal reusable indefinitely, making it possible to detect and prove its opening and its re-use, by the integration of a device allowing the uncontrolled evolution of its characteristic authenticating at each change of state i.e. at the time of the passage of the closed position to the open (FIG. 1A) cancelling the preceding authenticating characteristic and of the open to closed position (FIG. 1B) restoring new authenticating characteristics thanks to the chaotic self-generation of new authenticating characteristics in 15, 16, 17 caused by the aforementioned change of state;
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