Technology’s Edge

Covert markers for brand security

GLEN ROCK, Pa.—ARmark Authentication Technologies, LLC, announced a partnership with Smiths Detection to launch IntelliMark, a system for verifying genuine brand and product authentication for consumer goods, secure documents, food, and apparel. The IntelliMark system features ARmark's microscopic ®mark covert markers that are integrated into products and then viewed and identified with Smiths Detection's IdentifyIR and IlluminatIR instruments. IntelliMark offers investigators a secondary level of verification through Smiths Touchback spectral reading and confirmation service.