US Patent Issued to TIHIVE on June 23 for "Personalized authentication of products using terahertz waves" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,800, issued on June 23, was assigned to TIHIVE (Grenoble, France).

"Personalized authentication of products using terahertz waves" was invented by Hani Sherry (Grenoble, France), Carlos Prada Rojas (Grenoble, France) and Nicolas Beaudouin (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating an article is provided, comprising the following steps in a reference signature generation phase: acquiring a reference density image of a volume beneath a reference area of the article using a proximity terahertz imager array; and generating and storing a reference signature associated with the article from the reference d...