ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,745, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ELUCEDA Ltd. (Burnley, Great Britain).

"Electrochemical authentication method" was invented by Adam Richard Corbally (Yorkshire, Great Britain) and Ian Michael Eastwood (Lancashire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for product identification comprising subjecting a sample to cyclic voltammetry, wherein the sample is subjected to a plurality of voltammetric cycles to obtain a data set for each cycle and wherein the data sets comprise data points; and comparing the data set for each cycle with a data set for a corresponding cycle of at least o...