Patent ID: 8714442
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: B65D,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of securing articles of commerce passing through points along a supply chain, comprising: affixing a plurality of labels on the articles, one label for each article, each label having a first dataset configured as a random distribution of three-dimensional, light-modifying, raised elements as the authentication information, and a second dataset configured as data elements as the identification information; capturing the authentication information and the identification information from a label respectively associated with an article with an interrogation device at least one of the points in the supply chain; authenticating the article from the captured authentication information as being authorized or unauthorized at the at least one point based on the elevation of the raised elements relative to the label; identifying the article from the captured identification information at the at least one point; and sending transactional information about the article in response to the authenticating and identifying.