WISeKey Strengthens it Semiconductors NFC Brand Protection Related Patent Portfolio in China
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.”
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.
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