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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1999
Gaurav Aggarwal, New Delhi, IN;
Nabil Mahmoud Amer, Berkeley, CA (US);
Vernon Ralph Austel, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Pradeep Kumar Dubey, New Delhi, IN;
Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, New Delhi, IN;
Marco Martens, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Bruce Albert Scott, Tisbury, MA (US);
Sean William Smith, Cornwall, NY (US);
Charles Philippe Tresser, Mamaroneck, NY (US);
Robert Jacob Von Gutfeld, New York, NY (US);
Steve Harris Weingart, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Chai Wah Wu, Poughquag, NY (US);
Gaurav Aggarwal, New Delhi, IN;
Nabil Mahmoud Amer, Berkeley, CA (US);
Vernon Ralph Austel, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Pradeep Kumar Dubey, New Delhi, IN;
Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, New Delhi, IN;
Marco Martens, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Bruce Albert Scott, Tisbury, MA (US);
Sean William Smith, Cornwall, NY (US);
Charles Philippe Tresser, Mamaroneck, NY (US);
Robert Jacob von Gutfeld, New York, NY (US);
Steve Harris Weingart, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Chai Wah Wu, Poughquag, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method (and system) for guaranteeing authenticity of an object, includes providing a sample of material obtainable only by at least one of chemical and physical processes such that the sample is random and not reproducible, associating a number reproducibly to the sample by using a specific reader, and forming at least one coded version of the number, the at least one coded version being obtained by a key signature, and the version being recorded into an area of the object.