Pharmaceutical Anticounterfeiting Technology

描述(由申请人提供)： 为阻止假冒和篡改药品而采用的大量不同技术，以及在这一领域投入的大量资金，既反映了这个问题的普遍性，也反映了缺乏安全和强有力的预防手段。虽然一些技术，如传统的条形码或RFID，已经得到了一些成功的使用，但价格、可变性、易用性或复制的某种组合阻止了这些技术中的任何一种演变成广泛使用的有效系统来保护药物制剂。并行合成技术建议使用一种廉价且易于使用的编码技术，该技术根据多个稀土发射体的比率产生独特的光学签名，作为有效的反伪造威慑。初步实验表明，有可能在四种颜色系统中标记多达107个样品。提出了一种系统，通过该系统，药品包装可以被贴上标签，并随后利用廉价的读取器在分发点进行验证。编码系统是不可能改变或复制的，并且该体系结构在分级复杂性和成本方面是可扩展的，从而可以获得与期望的保护级别相称的最具成本效益的解决方案。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The large number of different techniques employed to thwart counterfeiting and tampering of pharmaceuticals, and large amount of money invested in this area, reflects both the pervasive nature of the problem and the lack of a secure and robust means of preventing it. While some techniques, such as traditional barcoding or RFID, are used with some success, some combination of price, alterability, ease of use or replication has prevented any of these techniques from evolving into a widely used and effective system to protect pharmaceutical preparations. Parallel Synthesis Technologies proposes the use of an inexpensive and easy to use encoding technology, which produces unique optical signatures based on ratios of multiple rare earth emitters, as an effective anticounterfeiting deterrent. Preliminary experiments indicate that it may be possible to label up to 107 samples in a four color system. A system by which the pharmaceutical packaging could be labeled and subsequently verified at point of distribution with an inexpensive reader is proposed. The encoding system is impossible to alter or replicate and the architecture is scalable in terms of hierarchical complexity and cost so that the most cost effective solution commensurate with the desired level of protection would be available.