Patent ID: 7646299

Claim:
A security material for protecting an article from tampering comprising: a cloth woven of a plurality of threads, one or more of the plurality of threads comprising a conducting wire, the conducting wire carrying an electrical current and/or voltage; a plurality of fuses, each fuse comprising a breakable shell and a wire filament inside the breakable shell, the wire filament connected to the conducting wire; and an integrated circuit electrically connected to each of the two or more conducting wires for monitoring the conducting wires, the integrated circuit containing logic for determining whether tampering is occurring and activating one of a plurality of pre-programmed alerts; wherein tampering with the article causes a break in one or more of the conducting wires and/or one or more of the plurality of fuses resulting in a loss of current and/or voltage therein and thereby causing the integrated circuit logic to activate at least one of the plurality of pre-programmed alerts.