Next Generation Authentication for anti-counterfeiting applications


Hoffman Estates, IL -- August 08, 2018 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire -- Wellness Center USA, Inc.’s (OTCQB: WCUI) wholly-owned subsidiary, StealthCo, Inc., dba Stealth Mark, recently announced conclusion of a licensing agreement with Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL) for next-generation authentication technology. Today, Stealth Mark is pleased to republish ORNL’s June 25th press release covering news of this agreement.  
 

Stealth Mark licenses ORNL invisible micro-taggant for anticounterfeiting applications

June 25, 2018

Media Contact

Shelby Whitehead, Communications
whiteheadsm@ornl.gov, 865.576.1946

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 25, 2018— StealthCo, Inc., an Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based firm doing business as Stealth Mark, has exclusively licensed an invisible micro-taggant from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The anticounterfeiting technology features a novel materials coding system that uses an infrared marker for identification.

The innovation of the taggant, which acts like a fingerprint with a unique encoded sequence or pattern, began in 2005 when ORNL researchers Glenn Allgood and principal investigator Linda Lewis teamed with Robert Smithwick III of the Y-12 National Security Complex to develop a cost-effective fluorescent dye system.

ORNL’s taggant can potentially identify counterfeit goods that litter business and commerce. This taggant is invisible due to its infrared position on the light spectrum, which makes it unlike other anticounterfeit technologies available in the market. Similar products use ultraviolet light, which degrades the taggant over time.

Recently, an ORNL Tech Transfer Technology Assistance Program project enabled Lewis, in ORNL’s Chemical Sciences Division, to conduct chemistry research testing of the taggant to assist Stealth Mark.

Oak Ridge-based Stealth Mark is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the publicly traded company, Wellness Center USA, Inc. Stealth Mark strives to eliminate counterfeiting activities through accurate identification and authentication of products. Cal O’Harrow is the CEO of Wellness Center USA, Inc., and Rick Howard is the CEO of Stealth Mark.

“This marker is an anticounterfeiting material for use with a target market of high value, high liability, and high security needs. We will target this product to authenticate materials such as art, currency and other items whose value is based on its authenticity. An example is a signed baseball, which is only worth a few dollars unless it’s authentic. It will also help with items that pose a physical threat, like airplane parts, where safety relies on authenticity. Our two target markets to implement this technology are textiles and currency,” Howard said.

Since 2014, Stealth Mark has looked to advanced taggant technology to provide holistic answers to counterfeiting and theft, such as the company’s global data research through the ‘ActiveDuty’ anticounterfeit digital threat assessment program.

Through the new product R&D licensing agreement, Stealth Mark will use ORNL’s advanced invisible micro-taggant technology, Formula C2-4:18, to progress their anticounterfeiting efforts through the marking system. Stealth Mark is actively pursuing a commercial license.

“It’s exciting to develop a technology that will actually carry forward in the commercial marketplace and be used for applications like preventing counterfeiting,” Lewis said.

The formula is a permanent mark that requires a specific illumination to activate the desired spectral emission. The invisible taggant can be read by a hand-held detector or scanner that displays the taggant as a fluorescent marking. The device then recognizes the unique barcode and data revealed by the taggant, and the information can be integrated with existing databases and systems.

By generating a unique coding system, the taggant can identify the item source, type, production and composition. This technology can specifically be implemented in textiles by coating threads with the invisible taggant before weaving, and a micro-code allows for tagging without damaging soft fabrics.

The technology consists of four parts: a tag composition that is invisible in the visible light spectrum and emits fluorescent light in the nonvisible light spectrum, a binder that adheres the tag to the material’s surface, the solvent used to dissolve the tag and binder, and a solar protectant that hinders degradation of the tag.

The taggant can be implemented in markings on almost any good, from invisible stamps on basketballs to invisible codes on currency, giving it a wide range of uses for a low production cost per taggant.

“This taggant technology is complementary to the market areas we want to serve. We are thankful to ORNL for their openness to us, and they have been great to work with us to meet this technology need,” Howard said.

UT-Battelle manages ORNL for DOE’s Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov. For ORNL licensing information, contact www.ornl.gov/partnerships. -- By Shelby Whitehead

 

About Stealth Mark

Stealth Mark (www.stealthmark.comis a technology leader in anti-counterfeiting, brand protection, and product authentication, offering the most advanced product security technologies available today within the security and supply chain management sectors. Offering complete security solutions, it utilizes the most comprehensive authentication technology available that is simple to deploy, cost effective, and virtually impossible to compromise.

Stealth Mark’s intellectual portfolio also includes its unique ActiveDuty™ System for global analysis of counterfeiting and related illicit activities, providing customers the ability to actively measure the lifecycle that is a collection of discreet and seemingly random behaviors of criminals anywhere within the digital domain. The unique and focused methodology of ActiveDuty is comprised of proprietary algorithmic architecture that creates the first systemic reporting mechanism to deliver strategic results supported by an intense, worldwide analysis of pattern of human behavior.

About Wellness Center USA, Inc.

Wellness Center USA, Inc. (www.wellnesscenterusa.com) is a hybrid healthcare company that combines best in class technologies, software, devices, providers, protocols, goods, and services. It was created to address important healthcare and wellness needs via breakthrough solutions, all centered around the “well-being of the body and mind”. Wellness Center USA, Inc. is the parent company of two businesses reporting consolidated: Stealth Mark and Psoria-Shield.

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At Wellness Center USA, Inc.

Tel: (847) 925-1885

www.wellnesscenterusa.com

Stealth Mark

Corporate Office: (865) 298-5166

Oak Ridge, TN

www.StealthMark.com

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