Covert RF Tags: Anti-Counterfeit Drug Initiative ...

Panel 6--Anti-Counterfeit Drug Initiative--October 2003 Meeting

... "If you want to see the RF tags in operation, please go to the show room there. We have it in paper, we have it in labels, special packaging. We demonstrate that we can read an RF signature on a box 10 feet away or we can read 10 millimeters away, depending on what the requirement of the client is. It is RF. We don't use a chip. It's in the paper, as you can see here. We embed our resonators in paper, and when we illuminate the paper with low energy, you get a signature back. The signature is now interpreted as a number. The number remains as part of the database. We are deployed. We're in somewhere between 50- and 100 million items a year, more covertly. We're now looking into the overt market. It's easy to identify. We can create numbers as large as you'd like. And basically they are created randomly, chaotically random, so it makes it very difficult for anyone to know what the next logical number in a sequence is. Also, our database is variable. We're not fixed size. We can have 16 bytes up to 6,000 bytes, depending on what the client requires. " ...