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.com) is
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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