Verification Transceiver for Multi-Dimensional Product Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current anti-counterfeiting methods are largely uni-dimensional and unsustainable, failing to effectively verify product authenticity throughout the supply chain, leading to revenue loss and trust issues for brand owners and consumers.
Innovation Solution
A multi-dimensional approach utilizing IoT technologies, blockchain-secured data, time fencing, and location fencing to create digital entities for each product instance, enabling secure authentication through a verification transceiver and mobile device system that advances encoded signals in a sequence, preventing tampering and ensuring authenticity verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If uni-dimensional anti-counterfeiting methods (secure labels, holograms, tamper proof packaging) are used, then product authentication capability is provided, but system complexity increases and sustainability decreases due to overhead and additional effort required throughout the supply chain
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple authentication functions into a single verification transceiver that integrates secure signal transmission, sequence advancement, and authentication verification. This merging reduces system complexity by consolidating what would otherwise require separate components for label verification, hologram validation, and tamper-proof checking into one unified device that communicates through encoded signals.
Solution Approach 2:
The verification transceiver serves multiple functions: it transmits encoded signals, advances through signal sequences, verifies product authenticity, and prevents counterfeiting. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate specialized components for each authentication method, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive authentication capability.
2Reliability
If uni-dimensional anti-counterfeiting methods are implemented, then some level of security is achieved, but the methods fail to effectively verify product authenticity throughout the entire supply chain
Solution Approach 1:
The verification transceiver continuously transmits encoded signals throughout the supply chain, with each signal representing current authentication status. The sequence advancement mechanism ensures that authentication information is continuously updated and verified at each stage, preventing information loss and maintaining security across the entire supply chain rather than at isolated points.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the verification transceiver receives and processes signals, advances its internal sequence state, and transmits updated encoded signals. This continuous feedback loop ensures that authentication information is maintained and verified throughout the supply chain, preventing information loss by constantly synchronizing the authentication state.
3Reliability
If traditional anti-counterfeiting methods are used, then initial authentication is possible, but the solution is unsustainable in the long run due to overhead and additional effort
Solution Approach 1:
The verification transceiver autonomously manages its own authentication sequence, automatically advancing through encoded signals without requiring external intervention. This self-service capability reduces overhead by eliminating the need for manual authentication processes or additional human effort, making the system sustainable for long-term deployment throughout the supply chain.
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AI summary
Application and associated methods relate to facilitating verification of authenticity of a product instance. Such verification of authenticity is facilitated by a verification transceiver configured to be affixed to a product instance. The verification transceiver includes an engagement fixture configured to affix the verification transceiver to a product instance. The verification transceiver includes a receiver configured to receive a query signal from a proximate mobile device. The verification transceiver includes a transmitter configured to transmit a current encoded signal indicative of the product instance in response to receiving the query signal. The verification transceiver also includes a verification-code sequencer configured to advance the current encoded signal to a next encoded signal in a sequence of encoded signals, each of the sequence indicative of the product instance, current encoded signal advanced to be transmitted in response to a next received query signal.