US Patent Issued to DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL on Dec. 16 for "Security devices and method of manufacture thereof" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,847, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

"Security devices and method of manufacture thereof" was invented by John Godfrey (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Rebecca Locke (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security device is provided, comprising one or more surface relief structure(s), each formed of one or more cured material(s), the surface relief structure(s) being disposed on a substantially flat substrate and defining a plurality of raised elements spaced from one another, the raised elements corresponding to elements of an image, whereby the plur...