US Patent Issued to Toppan Security on June 23 for "Personalizable security document and method of personalizing the same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,923, issued on June 23, was assigned to Toppan Security SAS (Paris).

"Personalizable security document and method of personalizing the same" was invented by Arnaud Calmet (Fanjeaux, France), Mathieu Loncle (Bordeaux, France) and Nipun Sharma (Suresnes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personalizable security document includes a combination of two secure features, namely, a laser-engravable material, and a hologram overlapping the laser-engravable material. The metallic properties of the laser-engravable material result in an enhancement of the holographic effect obtained from the hologram. Additionally, the hologram may extend...