Sicpa Holding Sa

Myron Seto

Edgar Muller

Thomas Tiller

Philipp Egger

Claude-Alain Despland

Edgar Müller

Milan Vasic

Claude Alain Despland

Philippe Amon

Olivier Brémond

Kok Weng Mak

Rene Henri Monnard

Joao Augusto Scheid Budzinski

Olivier Bremond

Edgar MÜLLER

João Augusto Scheid Budzinski

A method of marking and authenticating a manufactured item, comprising providing the manufactured item with a visible anti-counterfeiting indicium, marking with marking means the manufactured item with a visible alphanumeric string, marking with marking means the manufactured item with visible marking time data, and transmitting with data transmission and control means marking time data marked on the manufactured item and the alphanumeric string marked on the manufactured item. The method further comprises with computer database control means, receiving the transmitted marking time data and the transmitted alphanumeric string and storing in association in a database marking time information corresponding with the received marking time data marked on the manufactured item and alphanumeric information corresponding with the received alphanumeric string marked on the manufactured item. The method further comprises checking authenticity of the anti-counterfeiting indicium provided on the manufactured item, interrogating the database with the alphanumeric string read from the manufactured item to obtain marking time information for the manufactured item, and comparing the marking time information with marking time data read from the manufactured item to determine if they match. The method comprises determining the manufactured item as authentic if criteria are met, the criteria including that the checking step reveals an authentic anti-counterfeiting indicium and the comparing step determines a match.

Method and system for marking an item, an item so marked and a method and system for authenticating a marked item

The invention relates to a method for controlling a production of items on a production line, wherein a digital image of each of said items is processed so as to obtain at least identified product type data and identified item data, said identified product type data and identified item data being further used for determining a reliable production volume per product type and per associated item.

Method and system for controlling production of items

The invention is about a marking method and a corresponding coding center device for the marking of individual items (), such as security documents, currency, tax excise stamps, labels, pieces of packaging, articles, or transportation means, with pertinent information indicating their nature and/or content, origin and/or destination, etc., and their registration in a remote, centralized data base, enabling the tracking & tracing of said items () and of the goods they may be applied to. The method of the invention is based on a three-step printreadcancel (PRC) sequence, embodied in a device comprising a printing unit (P), a reading unit (R) and a canceling unit (C), arranged in-line on an integrated equipment and operating under the control of information processing means (IP).

Method and device for coding articles

The invention refers to a measurement probe for measuring magnetization data of at least one item (), specifically a security document comprising at least one magnetic security material (M), said measurement probe comprising at least one core free magnetizing coil () characterized in that at least two magnetic field sensors () are disposed at both ends inside said coil () at its both ends. The invention relates further to an authentication device comprising said measurement probe and to an authentication method carried out by means of said measurement probe and authentication device.

Measurement probe and authentication device comprising the same

A luminescent probe marking is excited with at least one excitation pulse of at least one excitation source. The probe intensity values of emission intensity from emission radiation of the luminescent probe marking are measured in response to the excitation pulse(s) at time intervals. A probe intensity-versus-time emission function is formed of the probe intensity values, and the probe intensity-versus-time emission function is compared with at least one reference intensity-versus-time emission function after the probe intensity-versus-time emission function and the reference intensity-versus-time emission function have been normalized.

Method, device and security system, all for authenticating a marking

Security documents or articles carrying luminescent marker compounds which show a time-deferred emission characteristic are authenticated by a method and device which allows for rapid extraction of characteristic luminescent parameters, such as emission intensity and time constants. The method is not sensitive to perturbations by ambient light and reduces optical filtering requirements.

Luminescence characteristics detector

The invention discloses magnetic OVP, said pigment consisting of thin-layer flakes having a basic metal-dielectric-metal structure to result in a viewing-angle dependent color appearance, and having, in addition to said viewing-angle dependent color appearance, incorporated magnetic properties, to make them distinguishable from OVP of similar appearance but not having said magnetic properties. The invention discloses as well methods for obtaining such pigments and the use of such pigments as security elements in inks, coatings and articles.

Magnetic thin film interference device or pigment and method of making it, printing ink or coating composition, security document and use of such a magnetic thin film interference device

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