US 2025/0178370 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING PLANCHETTES AND MICROPRINTING TO DETECT UNAUTHORIZED COPYING OR COUNTERFEITING IN ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE

Abstract

A security system for an article of manufacture includes: one or more first planchettes included in the article of manufacture and configured to luminesce when a first frequency of light is directed to the one or more first planchettes; and one or more second planchettes included in the article of manufacture and configured to luminesce when a second frequency of light is directed to the one or more second planchettes. The first and second planchettes have one or more first planchette substrates each including a first planchette surface having a first UV-reactive microprinting thereon; and one or more second planchette substrates each including a second planchette surface having a second UV-reactive microprinting thereon. The first UV-reactive microprinting is different from the second UV-reactive microprinting.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A security system for an article of manufacture, the security system comprising:

one or more first planchettes included in the article of manufacture and configured to luminesce when a first frequency of light is directed to the one or more first planchettes;
and
one or more second planchettes included in the article of manufacture and configured to luminesce when a second frequency of light is directed to the one or more second planchettes;
the first and second planchettes having one or more first planchette substrates each including a first planchette surface having a first UV-reactive microprinting thereon;
and one or more second planchette substrates each including a second planchette surface having a second UV-reactive microprinting thereon, the first UV-reactive microprinting being different from the second UV-reactive microprinting.

2 more elements

A method of detecting whether an article of manufacture is genuine, the method comprising:

directing a first frequency of light to the article of manufacture;
directing a second frequency of light to the article of manufacture;
detecting whether one or more first planchettes in the article of manufacture luminesce at the first frequency of light and whether one or more second planchettes in the article of manufacture luminesce at the second frequency of light;
and whether the first and second planchettes have one or more first planchette substrates each including a first planchette surface having a first UV-reactive microprinting thereon, and one or more second planchette substrates each including a second planchette surface having a second UV-reactive microprinting thereon, the first UV-reactive microprinting being different from the second UV-reactive microprinting.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

19/047,275Filed 6 Feb 2025

Priority

23 Feb 2022

Published

5 Jun 2025

Term ends

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Classification16 codes

B41M 3/14
Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns: security printing
B42D 25/24
Characterised by a particular use or purpose: passports
B42D 25/20
Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof: characterised by a…
B42D 25/26
Characterised by a particular use or purpose: entrance cards; Admission tickets

System and method of using planchettes and microprinting to detect unauthorized copying or counterfeiting in articles of manufacture

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System and method of using planchettes and microprinting to detect unauthorized copying or counterfeiting in articles of manufacture

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Abstract

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