Adhesives – Industrial glues used to make products. These include all ranges and applications such as lamination of credit cards, gluing boxes or packages, attaching labels to products or packages and joining products together.

Counterfeiting/Piracy – The unauthorized reproduction of your product, document, negotiable instrument, or other item of value.

Diversion – The unauthorized redirection of your product or materials from its approved geographic region or sales outlet.

Encrypted Microparticles – One or more microparticles whose number of layers and varying colors have been designed to produce a unique numeric code using Stealth Mark’s patented encryption algorithm.

Films – Plastic laminates or thin, sometimes flexible sheets of plastic. These include the plastics used in tapes, credit cards and packaging applications.

Identification Cards - Personal identification cards containing all or some of the following: the card user’s image or other biometric information, a magnetic strip, a bar code, a hologram, and/or other forms of stored encrypted information which are read by a reader device to identify the user and read the stored information.

Microparticle - comprised of colored layers, and currently as small as 5 microns in size, microparticle taggants are used as the base technology for the marking incorporated by all Stealth Mark^® products. (A micron is one millionth of a meter; the diameter of an average human hair is 80 microns.)

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) – an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is an object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves. Chip-based RFID tags contain silicon chips and antennas. Passive tags require no internal power source, whereas active tags require a power source.

Stealth Mark^® Card – A plastic card (e.g., an ID card, credit card, gift card, etc.) which has been pre-marked for a customer with microparticles which, when interogated, provide a given code licensed to that customer.

Stealth Mark^® Bottle Seal – Labeling designed specifically for securtity sealing the top of bottled products such as wine and spirits pre-treated with microparticles which, when interogated, provide a given code licensed to the specific customer.

Stealth Mark^® Code – A Code represents our standard level of protection; it is the interpretation of the particles within a mark producing a unique numeric code using Stealth Mark^® patented encryption algorithms.

StealthFire™ Software – Stealth Mark’s proprietary software suite that manages code assignments, controls system access via personnel management, flashes readers with the latest code data, provides the tools for the capture and analysis of marks, provides file-saving and reporting tools, and other related functionality.

Stealth Mark^® Product Authentification Label – An off-the-shelf standard product label, produced jointly with the Lauterbach Group, incorporating cutting-edge print technology in tandem with Stealth Mark^® product authentification technology.

Stealth Mark^® Mark – The physical mark made when encrypted microparticles are applied to an item via labels, seals, or direct application methods. The Code represented by the Mark is captured and deciphered (i.e., read) using our StealthFire™ reader and PC-based software suite.

Stealth Mark^® FingerPrint – A microparticle fingerprint represents our premium level of protection. A fingerprint not only provides the code from the mark but also 'maps' specific coordinates of the particles found within the mark. As the positions of the particles are totally random, due to application method, the particle coordinates are as unique as a human fingerprint.

StealthFire™ Reader – The Reader is a handheld device used to capture the image of a Mark, whether scanning the mark for it's code or for determing a microparticle fingerprint. Because it is portable, it can be used for authenticating items anywhere in your supply chain or sales channels – in the field, even at a point of sale. The StealthFire™ Reader operates in conjunction with our proprietary PC-based software suite.

Stealth Mark^® Services – Stealth Mark’s corps of professional consultants available to assist clients with the design, implementation, and conduct of their Stealth Mark authentication solution.

Stealth Mark^® Tape - Off-the-shelf packaging tape, used for securely protecting packages against tampering. The tape is a direct replacement for normal packaging tape, but it has been pre-treated with the Stealth Mark^® security marks.

Stealth Mark^® Carton Seals - Off-the-shelf carton seals which has been pre-treated with the Stealth Mark^® security marks.

Substitution – the unauthorized replacement of material or components you provide to a contract manufacturer with material or components of inferior or unknown quality.

Tampering – The theft or unauthorized manipulation of a package’s contents.