ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,891, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hueck Folien Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Baumgartenberg, Austria) and BANQUE DE FRANCE (Paris).

"Method for producing a security feature" was invented by Martin Egginger (Linz, Austria), Martin Bergsmann (Linz, Austria) and Marco Mayrhofer (Baumgartenberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a security feature (1) in the form of a colored image (2), a colorant being applied to a substrate (3) to produce the image, the image (2) being subdivided into grid areas, immediately adjacent grid areas (4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11) of the image (2) partially overlapping, ...