US Patent Issued to Mineral City Biotechnologies on Nov. 3 for "Authentication elements for authenticating objects and systems, objects, and methods using them" (Florida, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,826, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Mineral City Biotechnologies LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Authentication elements for authenticating objects and systems, objects, and methods using them" was invented by Chandana Kurra (Winter Park, Fla.), Paul Wasserman (Jacksonville, Fla.), Michael C. Freidl (Jacksonville, Fla.), Travis Eugene Meyer (Jacksonville, Fla.) and David B. Spenciner (Farmington, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication elements that can be physically associated with objects in order to authenticate the objects are provided. An authentication element encodes at least a portion of an authentication code. In so...