US Patent Issued to SICPA HOLDING on Oct. 6 for "Overt security features" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,517, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SICPA HOLDING SA (Prilly, Switzerland).

"Overt security features" was invented by Christophe Garnier (Reignier, France), Frederika Kristina De Jaegere (Dommartin, Switzerland), Cindy Mani (Echallens, Switzerland), Andrea Callegari (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Lucien Vuilleumier (Begnins, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of methods for producing eye-catching overt security features exhibiting colorshifting properties as anti-counterfeit means on security documents or security articles as well as decorative purposes. In particular, the overt secur...