ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,132, issued on July 14, was assigned to ZHONGCHAO SPECIAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and CHINA BANKNOTE PRINTING AND MINTING CORP. (Beijing).

"Optical anti-counterfeiting element and manufacturing method therefor, and anti-counterfeiting product" was invented by Chunhua Hu (Beijing), Bao Zhang (Beijing) and Jun Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an optical anti-counterfeiting element and a manufacturing method thereof, and an anti-counterfeiting product. The optical anti-counterfeiting element includes a micro lens array layer and a micro graphic-text array layer; the micro graphic-text array layer ...