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Method of guaranteeing the authenticity of documents by checking for the presence of a changed feature, and the document

US7835563B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 19, 2002
Grant dateNov 16, 2010
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Expiry dateOct 29, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07D7/20
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

What are proposed are a method and a system for guaranteeing the authenticity or checking the authenticity of documents, in particular banknotes or the like, which each have a substrate (1) with specific substrate features (2), an image of the substrate being recorded before a document is issued and the image data obtained in the process being stored in a manner assigned to document data, in order to keep these data ready for possible later comparison enquiries concerning the authenticity of an issued document.

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