ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,086, issued on March 24.
"Product authentication code" was invented by Dru Reschke (Penola, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code attached to a product for validating the authenticity of the product comprising a grid of selectively placed dots to encode a unique serial number for identifying the product. Adjacent vertical dots are joined together to form lines with rounded ends, to allow for human comparison of codes. The dots and rounded lines allow the code to be machine read even when scratched or marked."
The patent was filed on May 26, 2023, under Application No. 18/324,292.
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