AlpVision - Covert Anti-Counterfeiting Digital Imaging

AlpVision is a leader in developing covert solutions for protection against counterfeiting of branded products and value documents. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Switzerland. Its clients include companies that count among the top 100 enterprises worldwide, many of them in the pharmaceutical industry.

AlpVision covert digital imaging solutions for brand protection have two purposes: protecting the packaging and labelling of pharmaceutical products, and protecting the medicine tablet itself.

Invisible anti-counterfeit marking for packaging

Primary packaging, such as blister packs or flexible packaging, and secondary packaging, such as folding boxes and labels, are protected against counterfeiting with AlpVision’s proprietary Cryptoglyph technology, which is the only security process in the world that provides an invisible marking with standard ink and standard printing processes (offset, rotogravure, flexography, laser, inkjet, etc.).

Cryptoglyph can be easily integrated into any current packaging and labelling production line with no incremental production cost. The Cryptoglyph covert security feature is produced without any change in the production process and without alteration of the production speed.

Digital image references for authenticating medical tablets

AlpVision has extended Fingerprint, its unique and breakthrough technology, to authenticate components and products such as medical device parts, to protect tablets against counterfeiting. This technology uses digital image references to track and authenticate medicine tablets without the need for additional marking.

This new, patented covert solution is based on the unique and intrinsic characteristics of the tooling used in the tablet presses. The punch die sets used by the original manufacturer are listed as reference images in a database that serves to authenticate the tablets produced by each specific punch die set.

Just one reference is sufficient to authenticate all the tablets produced by the punch die set, counted in millions. No additional marking is necessary and the process does not incur any additional production costs.

Authentication open platform for the entire supply chain

For both the tablet and the printed items, the authentication process is automatic; it can be carried out online anywhere and at any time through online access to a secured server.

This server is commercialised as software licence under the trade name of Krypsos, which is based on state-of-the-art server-side internet architecture (asp.net). Krypsos allows brand manufacturers to manage their full anti-counterfeiting program and provide a single authentication point for the entire supply chain.

Covert authentication using office scanners, digital cameras or camera phones

AlpVision’s covert authentication solutions require nothing more than standard devices such as office scanners, digital cameras or camera phones to get an instant ‘Genuine or Fake’ online verdict, anywhere and any time, which any authorised person can perform without any specific knowledge.

AlpVision’s solutions are used for more than a billion items for the top 100 companies worldwide who are thus successfully protecting their branded products against counterfeiting.