Quantum Random Code Product Tracking via Living Organisms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for authenticating and tracking products are inadequate, as they lack robustness, traceability, and consumer involvement, making it difficult to differentiate between authentic and counterfeit products, and fail to prevent theft and smuggling, leading to significant financial and health risks.
Innovation Solution
A method using quantum random number generation combined with blockchain technology to create unique, tamper-proof codes that can be verified by consumers via smartphones, ensuring product authenticity and tracking from manufacture to consumption, while also enabling ownership certification and location verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If deterministic or pseudorandom codes are used for product identification, then product tracking is enabled, but the codes are vulnerable to algorithmic attacks and replication by malicious third parties
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces conventional computational random number generation (software-based deterministic or pseudorandom algorithms) with a quantum mechanical system. The random code generation is based on quantum processes occurring within a living organism's cells, specifically utilizing the inherent randomness of quantum events in biological systems. This substitution fundamentally changes the basis of randomness from computational to physical/quantum, making the codes immune to algorithmic attacks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a living organism as an intermediary medium between the random number generation system and the product coding system. The organism's cellular quantum processes generate the random codes, which are then extracted and applied to products. This intermediary provides both the quantum randomness and a biological verification layer, as the organism's vitality serves as a guarantee of the code's authenticity and不可复制性.
2Ease of operation
If consumer authentication tools are provided, then product authenticity verification is enabled, but the system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables consumers to perform authentication themselves using simple tools (smartphone cameras or scanners) without requiring complex centralized verification systems. The quantum random codes are designed to be self-verifying through their unique statistical properties and impossibility of replication. Consumers can independently verify product authenticity by checking the code's characteristics, eliminating the need for complex server-based verification and reducing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses optical copying methods (camera scanning, image capture) for code verification instead of requiring physical contact or complex mechanical verification devices. The quantum code can be captured as an optical image and analyzed digitally, simplifying the consumer interface while maintaining security through the quantum properties of the original code generation process.
3Reliability
If centralized databases are used for code storage and verification, then traceability is improved, but the system becomes vulnerable to tampering and unauthorized access
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary verification of the quantum random code's authenticity at the point of generation, using the living organism's vitality as a pre-verification mechanism. This preliminary action ensures that only codes generated by viable organisms are issued, creating an inherent trust layer before the code enters the database system. The organism's continued vitality serves as ongoing verification, preventing later tampering.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors the living organism's status and uses this information to validate code authenticity. The organism's biological signals provide ongoing feedback that confirms the code's legitimacy. This feedback loop creates a dynamic verification system that is resistant to tampering, as any attempt to alter or replicate the code would require compromising the living organism itself.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution provides a robust, reliable, and traceable system that prevents counterfeiting and theft by ensuring unique, inviolable codes, enabling consumers to verify product authenticity and origin, and providing a secure tracking mechanism for products and documents.
Implementation Method 1
The system comprises a quantum random number generation system (24), which generates random codes based on quantum processes
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AI summary
A method for tracking products, involving a subprocess (100) for generating and associating codes with products, and a subprocess (200) for acquiring products is provided, which enable the consumer, by using his/her smartphone, directly to identify forged, adulterated or stolen products or those containing any information supplied by the manufacturer that prohibits the sale thereof, transforming the consumer into an active element in an integrated control system. The consumer becomes a terminal in a network, fully equipped with online communication and information tools, in addition to cameras and other sensors, making the consumer a potential agent for authenticating products and goods in general. Furthermore, a method (300) for validating encounters, capable of authenticating and validating an encounter between two or more mobile devices or between a mobile device and a fixed device is provided, the method (300) authenticating an encounter between two persons by use of their smartphones.