ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,082, issued on June 3, was assigned to HID Global CID SAS (Suresnes, France) and HID Global Ireland Teoranta (Galway, Ireland).

"Security document and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Arnaud Calmet (Fanjeaux, France), Paul Shane Doran (Galway, Ireland) and Salvatore Serrao (Grattavache, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security document includes a security feature with a hologram and a color image arranged on top of each other. Holographic features of the hologram are visible when the security document is viewed under white light, and a plurality of image features of the color image are visible when the d...