Authentication method and device for protecting manufactured goods
Description
The present invention relates to a anti-counterfeiting method and device for protecting manufactured goods, and specially to an authentication method and an authentication device providing information to verify the authenticity of the goods. The invention consist in inserting information at the micrometric and nanometric scale. The information is embedded on the surface of the object in the form of controlled roughness together with an authentication protocol derived from it. An optical reading device to retrieve the information has also been developed.
Institution :
Université de Mons
Field :
Potential applications and advantages :
Present invention provides a method and a device enabling an easy authentication of an object or article, with high security, involving low cost equipment and material. It provides a large number of information and/or authentication data, which are not directly accessible or readable, and which are difficult to reproduce. Marking of an article on a large area, with a high precision and no distortion, and without altering the article physical properties, becomes possible.
Patent :
1 EP and 1 PCT patent application filed
Stage of development :
Medium Stage
File number :
none
Contact name :
Cayemittes Sonia
Contact email :
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