HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL , April 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wellness Center USA, Inc.’s (OTCQB: WCUI) wholly-owned subsidiary, StealthCo, Inc., dba Stealth Mark, is pleased to announce that they have concluded licensing of a patent for technology that is the next generation of Stealth Mark.
Working with researchers at the Oak Ridge National Labs, the patent signifies development of a new technology that will generate an invisible marking system with attributes currently unavailable in the anti-counterfeit marketplace today. The formula and techniques have been shown through extensive testing to be resilient to manufacturing processes and can be used on a wide range of materials from woven and non-woven fabrics, cardboard, metal, concrete, plastics, leather, wood, and paper. In addition, the complexity of the information that can be encoded with the system makes counterfeiting difficult.
Following the high standards of all Stealth Marks, the new technology is un-seeable with the human eye, is unduplicatable, non-hackable, indestructible, is not brand intrusive and as always, very affordable.
In its simplicity, the material is a permanent mark which requires no power source but is illuminated by a select spectral emission property. With extensive application possibilities, it can be applied in the form of symbols or readable patterns, such as a barcode that can incorporate additional information of use to the manufacturer and consumers. The company will continue research to progress the formula and the current detectors that can be handheld with the means to read, process, and display information from the emitted signal that can work with existing databases and enterprise systems.
With prospective clients already requesting the qualities of the new formula, there is a soft launch now underway to a few select and highly specialized companies that are leaders in targeted industries. Stealth Mark expects an official launch of the next generation in authentication in early summer of 2018.
Rick Howard, CEO of Stealth Mark, stated, “We are very excited about the pending roll out of this new formula. Working with the exceptional talent of people at the Oak Ridge National Labs has been very beneficial and we look forward to our continued relationships in generating outstanding products designed to thwart illicit counterfeiting activity. The addition of this technology, alongside the company’s current intelligent microparticle technology, greatly strengthens the company’s position in the anti-counterfeiting marketplace. Stealth Mark works hard to create the highest levels of protection for our clients and as we move toward our official launch, we also look forward to unveiling further components that are the first of their kind in the marketplace.”
About Oak Ridge National Laboratories
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) (https://www.ornl.gov/) provides exceptional researchers with distinctive equipment and unique facilities to solve some of the nation’s most compelling challenges. As the largest US Department of Energy (DOE) open science laboratory, ORNL’s mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and technical breakthroughs that will accelerate the development and deployment of solutions in clean energy and global security while creating economic opportunities for the nation.
About Stealth Mark
Stealth Mark (www.stealthmark.com) is a technology leader in anti-counterfeiting, brand protection, and product authentication, offering the most advanced product security technologies available today within the security and supply chain management sectors. Offering complete security solutions, it utilizes the most comprehensive authentication technology available that is simple to deploy, cost effective, and virtually impossible to compromise.
Stealth Mark’s intellectual portfolio also includes its unique ActiveDuty™ System for global analysis of counterfeiting and related illicit activities, providing customers the ability to actively measure the lifecycle that is a collection of discreet and seemingly random behaviors of criminals anywhere within the digital domain. The unique and focused methodology of ActiveDuty is comprised of proprietary algorithmic architecture that creates the first systemic reporting mechanism to deliver strategic results supported by an intense, worldwide analysis of pattern of human behavior.
About Wellness Center USA, Inc.
Wellness Center USA, Inc. (www.wellnesscenterusa.com) is a hybrid healthcare company that combines best in class technologies, software, devices, providers, protocols, goods, and services. It was created to address important healthcare and wellness needs via breakthrough solutions, all centered around the “well-being of the body and mind”. Wellness Center USA, Inc. is the parent company of two businesses reporting consolidated: Stealth Mark and Psoria-Shield.
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