ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,194, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Security document comprising a perforated opaque layer with a white appearance above a matrix of coloured sub-pixels" was invented by Benoit Berthe (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security document having a stack of layers including a matrix of coloured sub-pixels, an opaque layer with a white appearance above the matrix of coloured sub-pixels, the opaque layer with a white appearance having perforations facing sub-pixels of the matrix of coloured sub-pixels such that, when the device is observed from above, a coloure...