摘要 |
The present invention relates to a method for authenticating and/or identifying an object containing a chemical marking agent that is enclosed in an essentially inseparable manner in a marker as a carrier and contains selected chemical elements and/or compounds in the form of marking elements having concentrations on the basis of a defined encoding code, said method comprising the following steps: i) qualitative and/or quantitative determination of the marking elements of the chemical marking agent, and ii) trimming the values determined in step i) with the defined encoding code. |