US Patent Issued to Red Bull on Aug. 25 for "System for checking the authenticity of products" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,600, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Red Bull GmbH (Fuschl am See, Austria).

"System for checking the authenticity of products" was invented by Hermann Sonnleitner (St. Peter, Austria), Josef Nachbagauer (Fuschl am See, Austria), Roland Concin (Fuschl am See, Austria) and Harald Mayrhuber (Fuschl am See, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for checking the authenticity of a product, according to which the product is provided with an identification, the information of which is read out by a detector and is transmitted to a database via an information network and is compared with information stored there, wherein a decis...