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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Pasquale Vincent Costa, Concord, MA (US);
Ernest George Henrichon, Jr., Bedford, NH (US);
Curtis William Howes, Georgetown, DE (US);
Eric Paul Johanson, Sandown, NH (US);
Pasquale Vincent Costa, Concord, MA (US);
Ernest George Henrichon, Jr., Bedford, NH (US);
Curtis William Howes, Georgetown, DE (US);
Eric Paul Johanson, Sandown, NH (US);
Other;
Abstract
Persons and/or business entities (inquirers), interested in acquiring a BRANDED article, or availing themselves of a BRANDED service, upon seeing IDENTIFIERwith BRANDof authenticator, as carried by the article or its packaging or associated with a service, are enabled to recognize that the BRAND SOURCE of such article(s) or service is authenticatable and the article trackable. By imaging the unique encoded symbology, carried by IDENTIFIER, and transmitting the image, and/or its decode, to administratorauthentication of the BRAND SOURCE and tracking of the article may be accomplished. Authenticator, upon receipt of the image, and/or decode, of the encoded symbologycarried by the article or service, may query authenticator data base(FIG.) and seek a match, from data previously stored in data basefor stored data corresponding to the so received decode of the specific encoded symbology carried by the article or service. According to one aspect of this invention all inquiries concerning authentication of BRAND SOURCE are routed to authenticator