Biometric Product Label Encryption for Counterfeit Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Counterfeiting of products poses significant challenges, as it leads to loss of consumer trust, health risks, and difficulties for manufacturers and law enforcement in tracking and verifying authentic products, especially in global supply chains and parallel imports.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that encrypts biometric data associated with manufacturers, extracts recurring patterns, appends product identification codes, and interleaves encrypted data into product labels, using multiple encryption methods and error checksums to create a tamper-proof, non-replicable authentication system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional product labels are used without encryption, then manufacturing and application are simple, but products are vulnerable to counterfeiting and cannot be reliably tracked
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by encrypting manufacturer biometric data and embedding it in product labels before products reach the market. This advance preparation ensures authentication capability is built into each product from the source, preventing counterfeiting rather than detecting it later.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication system consisting of encrypted biometric patterns and verification servers. This intermediary layer sits between the manufacturer and consumer, providing reliable authentication without requiring direct trust relationships or complex manual verification processes.
2Reliability
If multiple encryption methods are applied to product labels, then counterfeiting resistance improves, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies multiple encryption methods in advance during the label generation phase, not during verification. By pre-computing the encrypted biometric patterns and embedding them in labels, the system achieves strong security without imposing time delays on consumers or retailers during product verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication system is segmented into distinct phases: encryption during manufacturing, embedding in labels, and simple verification by consumers. This segmentation allows complex cryptographic operations to occur only during production when time is available, while verification remains快速 and simple for end-users.
3Loss of information
If biometric data is encrypted and embedded in product labels, then product tracking capability improves, but data security requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential authentication elements (encrypted biometric patterns and product identifiers) from the full biometric data and embeds them in labels. This extraction approach provides sufficient tracking and authentication capability while minimizing the security risks associated with storing and processing complete biometric information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses disposable, pre-computed encrypted authentication tokens in each product label rather than requiring ongoing access to or storage of sensitive biometric data. Each label contains a self-contained, irreplicable authentication element that can be verified without exposing or storing the original biometric information, reducing long-term security requirements.
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AI summary
Embodiments provide methods and systems for providing labels to prevent counterfeiting of products. In an embodiment, the method includes accessing, by a processor, one or more biometric data associated with a manufacturer. The one or more biometric data include fingerprint data, iris pattern, facial pattern, heart rate, electrical activity of skeletal muscles and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) data that are encrypted using a first encryption method for generating a first encrypted data. From the first encrypted data, a biometric pattern is extracted. The biometric pattern is appended with one or more product identification codes for generating a product encoded data. The product encoded data is encrypted using a second encryption method. An error checksum data is appended to the second encrypted data and a unique identifier is prefixed to the second encrypted data. The second encrypted data is added to product labels of the products for securing the products from counterfeiting.