IP-Protected 3D-Printed Electronics and More

Sharon Flank, CEO

Apr 2016

IP-Protected 3D-Printed

Electronics and More

Counterfeiting is a trillion-dollar business

Costs US companies

$250B/year

Erodes consumer confidence

Can support terrorists and

organized crime

R I S K

3D printing makes counterfeiting easy

3D Printing, Protected with Spectroscopy

Under-the-skin fingerprinting:

Fingerprinting for “ink”

Authorized spare parts, made with the right material

Make objects unscannable

What We Do: Light-Based Verification

Chemical Taggants in the “sandwich”

Detector: Pocket-sized spectrometer

Fast & easy field authentication

PB&J metaphor:

“the most promising is a technique developed by InfraTrac” (3dprint.com)

Tagging Electronics

Printable electronics options include:

Jettable nanocomposites, e.g. Chemcubed

Bioprinting with electronics, e.g. Jennifer Lewis (Wyss/Harvard)

Conductive ink (NanoDimension)

Conductive graphene filament (BLACKMAGIC3D)

RFID (Chemcubed)

Flexible, e.g. for wearables

Layered into substrate: InfraTrac taggants

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InfraTrac’s chemical protection is…

Completely covert

Detectable in the field

Easy to scale

Small circle of trust: nobody needs to know the entire recipe

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3D Printing IP Opportunity: Licensed Taggants

Gartner: 3D printing IP theft >$100 billion by 2018

Brand Owners: Authorized product

1st Markets: Defense/Aerospace; Med Devices

Current Protection Options for 3D

1-use print

Protects the file, but not the object

Quantum dots

Scale-up and supply chain issues

Toxicity issues (cadmium, lead)

DNA

Full verification is not a field test

Heat limits applicability

Easy AND Effective

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Serialization(2D, RFID)

Hologram BotanicalDNA

LaserEtching

UVInk

Easy to Use X X X X X

Fast Results X X X X X

Covert X** X

Flexible X

Cost-effective X* X X X X

Hard to Defeat X X

** DNA is covert only with full PCR, not with UV

* Expensive infrastructure

What InfraTrac Can Protect, 3D & Beyond

Plastic

Packaging

Medical Devices

Metal

Cars

Electronics

Computer Chips

Substances

Medications

Cosmetics

Perfume

Luxury Goods

Our IP is well protected

In-dose fingerprints: EU 2012, US 2014 EP1671094, U.S. 8,719,043

Packaging chemical code: 2013; CIP U.S. 8,517,274, EU allowed 2016

Hospital medication errors: 2011 U.S. 7,952,710

Patents Pending:• Sensor fusion• 3D printing

Confidential

Sharon Flank, Ph.D.Silver Spring, MD

[email protected]

We keep brands safe…

from FAKES AND MISTAKES