METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCORPORATING NON-VISIBLE INFORMATION INTO A PRODUCT

摘要

The present application describes products incorporating non-visible information for identifying the source of the product, the identity of the product, or the identity of an asset to which the product is affixed or for which the product serves as packaging. The product includes a base layer onto which information is encoded using a non-visible information encoding. An obscuring layer may also be provided. The obscuring layer is provided separately from the base layer and obscures the non- visible information encoding from view. The obscuring layer may be a card face, a thin material film, a latex sheet, foil, varnish, or opaque ink printed over the variable magnetic code. A method for incorporating a non-visible information into a product is also provided.