Back to results
US 2022/0067470 A1Published application
Leather with skin texture having an identification code
AssigneeAgfa NV
InventorJoris Van Garsse
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A natural leather embossed with a skin texture for authenticating said natural leather with an identification code comprising the steps: —applying a protective top-coat on said natural leather; and —selecting an identification code and converting said identification code to a plurality of locations; and —forming a skin texture with higher up elements and lower located elements; arranged according said plurality of locations; and —embossing said skin texture in said protective top-coat.
Claims18
-15. (canceled)
An authentication method for embossed natural leather wherein the natural leather is embossed by a process comprising:
- a) applying a protective top-coat on natural leather;
- and
- b) pressing against the protective top-coat an embossing element, the embossing element comprising a relief having a plurality of lower located elements and higher located elements to form in the protective top-coat an artificial skin texture, the artificial skin texture having an embedded identification code;
- wherein the higher located elements comprise line structures and the lower located elements comprise segments confined by one or more of the line structures;
- and
- wherein the authentication method comprises:
- a decoding step comprising a step of determining the embedded identification code by determining mutual locations of the embossed formation by the lower located elements and/or higher elements in the protective top-coat;
- and
- converting the determined mutual locations to a plurality of characters for authenticating the embossed natural leather;
- wherein the mutual locations of the embossed formation by the lower located segments is used for the determination of the embedded identification code.
7 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.