Replacing legitimate manufactured goods and components with counterfeit ones is a real concern for the multi-billion dollar manufacturing industry in the United States.
Now researchers have used additive manufacturing to devise a more secure and accurate way to identify products as authentic to help mitigate this issue, they said. Scientists at Texas A&M University have developed a method for imprinting a hidden magnetic tag during the fabrication process of hardware to ensure its authenticity, they said.
By Elizabeth Montalbano for Design News
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