ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,789, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea).
"Security code including metamaterials" was invented by Minah Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Geon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yeeun Roh (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a security code including a substrate, metamaterials on the substrate, a signal modulation pattern on the metamaterials, and a capping layer covering the signal modulation pattern and the metamaterials, wherein the metamaterials include a pair of metal patterns facing each other, the signal modulation pattern covers a portion of the metal pat...