Alitheon “fingerprints” manufactured items by taking a picture of each one, including its distinguishing characteristics, as it rolls off an assembly line.
“I can serialize, and just like with people, if I fingerprint items, I can say which item it is. I can say something is fake because clearly it isn’t fingerprinted,” Ganzarski said.
The company examines up to 5,000 points of interest on a product compared with the 11 points of interest used to identify a human fingerprint. “FeaturePrints” can be used to trace each item as it goes through a supply chain, he said. Rather than using an AI methodology to identify chips, the company employs discrete mathematics.
