ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,004, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Package security utilizing tamper-resistant tape" was invented by Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Robert J. Kapinos (Durham, N.C.), Igor Stolbikov (Apex, N.C.) and Scott Li (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at a tamper detection system, a machine-readable capture of tape located on a package, wherein the tape includes at least two blocks of machine-recognizable characters generated utilizing at least one cryptographic technique, wherein the at ...