US Patent Issued to Cimbali Group on April 14 for "Method for authenticating and anti-counterfeiting coffee machines or coffee grinders" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,699, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cimbali Group S.p.A. (Binasco MI, Italy).

"Method for authenticating and anti-counterfeiting coffee machines or coffee grinders" was invented by Paolo Rognoni (Binasco, Italy), Michele Campanella (Binasco, Italy) and Dario Costa (Binasco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for authenticating and anti-counterfeiting coffee machines or coffee grinders, comprising the steps of: acquiring by means of a web server identification data associated with a coffee machine or a coffee grinder; generating encrypted data by executing a hash function of the identification data; generating a digital...