Patent ID: 8332949
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for making an authenticating system for an object, the method comprising: establishing, via a printer, a plurality of variable instruments on the object, each of the plurality of variable instruments having a different identifier including a plurality of payloads, the identifier being independent of any particular product and remaining unstored until being associated with information from some product; depositing a product in the object after the instruments have been established on the object; acquiring, via a reading device, information, including one of the plurality of payloads, from at least two of the plurality of variable instruments; associating the acquired information with information from the product to render product-specific authenticating data; and storing, via a computer system, the product-specific authenticating data; wherein at least one of the plurality of variable instruments on the object is different from at least one of the plurality of variable instruments on an other of the objects; and wherein the one of the plurality of payloads is chosen from a range of payload values.