WISeKey Strengthens it Semiconductors NFC Brand Protection Related Patent Portfolio in China
July 13 2021 - 12:27PM
WISeKey Strengthens it
Semiconductors NFC Brand Protection Related Patent Portfolio in
China
WISeKey has been granted two fundamental patents
about Semiconductors NFC tag design in China, which
protect the company’s unique IP in the area of product
authenticity verification and customer engagement.
Geneva, Switzerland
– July
13,
2021: WISeKey
International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a
leading global cybersecurity and IoT company today announced it has
been granted two new patents by the China National Intellectual
Property Administration (CNIPA) that protect inventions in the
domain of NFC tags for smart packaging, brand protection and
customer engagement applications.
WISeKey has designed its NanoSeal® and VaultIC®
lines of secure NFC chips that can be attached to any brand product
for unmatched security, cloud-based authentication, traceability,
and consumer engagement. The cryptographic functions of these
WISeKey’s NFC chips, integrated with the complete WISeAuthentic
ecosystem, offer an efficient way for brands to replace traditional
non-secure QR code scanning or basic NFC tags. Moreover, the
featured tamper detection sensors combined with single-tap Android
and iOS compatibility, extends the possibilities and disrupts
direct-to-consumer digital strategies.
Various industries already benefit from this
ecosystem including fashion & sports apparel, cosmetics, wines
& spirits, consumer products, medicines and luxury goods.
The original tamper detection sensors play a
pivotal role in WISeKey’s proposed enriched customer experience:
upon the status of these sensors, the brand’s messaging to the
consumer can be adapted, giving packaging some intelligence.
Both new WISeKey’s Chinese patents cover this
feature. To summarize:
- Patent referenced CN106797235B
describes a method to keep the NFC tag alive when the package has
been opened, making it able to detect the opening and to adapt its
behavior accordingly;
- Patent referenced CN108713292B
describes a method to reliably place such NFC tags with open
detection on any packaging, including on bottles. WISeKey’s CapSeal
Top tags are direct applications of this patent.
“As reported in the newly released CNIPA 2020
Annual Report, there were a total of 1.497 million patents filed in
China in 2020, among which 89.8% were about domestic inventions. In
the same year, 530,000 patents were granted with 83.1% of the total
being domestic ones,” said Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of
WISeKey. “China is a very inventive country. Getting two patents
simultaneously granted there testifies WISeKey’s employees are,
too. Because we have significant Chinese subcontractors and
customers, and because we are investing a big portion of our
revenue in R&D (40% in 2020) to provide our customers with the
best cybersecurity, patents filing in China is not an option for
WISeKey.”
To learn
more about WISeKey’s Intellectual
Properties, visit
WISeKey’s IPs.To learn
more about WISeKey’s Brand Protection Solutions, visit
WISeKey’s Brand Protection.
About WISeKey
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN)
is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large
scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using
Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the
Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing
shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install
base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors
(connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors,
anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile
phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned
to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge
amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence
(AI), can help industrial applications to predict the failure of
their equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s
Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure
authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual
environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial
Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to
ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and
between objects and people. For more information,
visit www.wisekey.com.
Press and investor contacts:
WISeKey
International Holding LtdCompany Contact: Carlos
MoreiraChairman & CEOTel: +41 22 594
3000info@wisekey.com |
WISeKey
Investor Relations (US)Contact: Lena CatiThe Equity
Group Inc.Tel: +1 212 836-9611lcati@equityny.com |
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