Artwork Materials Embedded With Nucleic Acid Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing artwork authentication systems, such as RFID technology, are limited in managing production and trade, and do not effectively address forgery concerns, especially after the artist's death, and lack integration with the artwork itself.
Innovation Solution
Embedding artificial nucleic acid sequences into artwork materials, allowing for the storage and management of information, and using a system to authenticate and manage the production and trade of artworks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If RFID technology is used for authentication, then authentication capability is improved, but the system cannot effectively manage production and trade and cannot fundamentally solve forgery concerns
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions (authentication, production management, trade management) into a single integrated system. The nucleic acid sequence authentication object is embedded directly into the artwork material itself, creating a unified system that handles both authentication and comprehensive management operations, thereby resolving the limitation of RFID technology that separates these functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The artwork material with embedded nucleic acid sequences serves multiple purposes: it acts as both the physical artwork and the authentication carrier, enables production tracking, facilitates trade management, and provides forgery detection. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate RFID tags and authentication systems, addressing the versatility deficiency of conventional RFID systems.
2Reliability
If a secure element separated from the artwork is used, then authentication information can be stored, but the variability of the mark is high and forgery concern is not fundamentally solved
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication object (nucleic acid sequence) is merged with the artwork material itself rather than being separated in a secure element. This integration ensures that the authentication mark becomes an inherent part of the artwork, eliminating variability issues and fundamentally addressing forgery concerns while maintaining reliable authentication information storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses nucleic acid sequences as digital copies of authentication information that are embedded within the physical artwork material. This allows the authentication data to be replicated precisely within the material itself, ensuring consistency and eliminating the variability problems associated with separate secure elements or external tags.
3Adaptability or versatility
If authentication is performed after the original artist's death, then posthumous verification is enabled, but the verification process becomes more inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The artwork material with embedded nucleic acid sequences performs self-authentication by containing the authentication information within its own structure. This eliminates the need for complex external verification systems or manual authentication processes, making posthumous verification as convenient as reading the embedded sequence data, thereby resolving the inconvenience issue while maintaining posthumous capability.
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AI summary
Provided is a method of managing production and trade of an artwork, the method including: storing, when in-material information is received from an artist terminal, the in-material information in an in-material information database, and converting the in-material information into an artificial nucleic acid sequence and requesting a material manufacturer terminal for production of an artwork material embedded with the artificial nucleic acid sequence at a material production request step; receiving artwork information after an artwork is produced using the artwork material, and registering the received artwork information in an artwork information database; providing the artwork information registered in the artwork information database to a purchaser terminal, and conducting, when a purchaser chooses a particular artwork through the purchaser terminal, a trade of the chosen artwork; and searching, when nucleic acid sequence information is received from the purchaser terminal, the in-material information database for the nucleic acid sequence information.