Patent ID: 8613908

Claim:
A pharmaceutical product which may be authenticated, comprising: identifying markers disposed in the pharmaceutical product, the pharmaceutical product having an interior and containing active and inactive ingredients, wherein the pharmaceutical product is selected from the group consisting of a pill, a tablet, a caplet, and a capsule, the identifying markers comprise a plurality of gel pellets integrally mixed with the active and inactive ingredients and the gel pellets reside in the interior of the pharmaceutical product, the gel pellets are made from a hydroscopic medium and have a shape, a color, and an indicia imprinted thereon, the indicia being alpha numeric characters, dot codes, or logos, and wherein when the contents of the pharmaceutical product are dispersed in a liquid medium for authentication, the gel pellets expand volumetrically when contacted with the liquid medium so that the shape, the color, and the indicia are visible to a human eye and can be used to visually verify the pharmaceutical product.