US Patent Issued to Crane & Co. on May 12 for "Fully micro-optic security document" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,479, issued on May 12, was assigned to Crane & Co. Inc. (Dalton, Mass.).

"Fully micro-optic security document" was invented by Samuel M. Cape (Woodstock, Ga.), Karin Morck-Hamilton (Stockholm), Fredrik Von Blixen-Finecke (Farsta, Sweden), Jason Van Gumster (Woodstock, Ga.), Jennifer Cowan (Marietta, Ga.), Ryan Toole (Washington D.C., D.C.), Gunnar Nehls (Stockholm), Kara Zona (Marietta, Ga.), Jonathan D. Gosnell (Cumming, Ga.) and Benjamin E. Bleiman (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security document (200) includes a secure substrate (205). The secure substrate includes a viewing side (209) and a backing side (211), and ...