US Patent Issued to Collectors Universe on Sept. 1 for "Identification of counterfeit collectible cards" (California, Illinois, Virginia, Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,175, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Collectors Universe Inc. (Santa Ana, Calif.).

"Identification of counterfeit collectible cards" was invented by Hu Cao (Cypress, Calif.), Kassim Lovett (Falls Church, Va.), Danylo Prykhodko (Naples, Fla.), Pushkar Kumar Jain (Dallas), Bradley Sliz (Libertyville, Ill.), David Shalamberidze (Naples, Fla.) and Pratixa Joshi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A counterfeit detection system includes one or more computer devices for determining if a collectible card is counterfeit. The counterfeit detection system includes executable code that, when executed, enables the computer system ...