IDEMIA launches LASINK™ Helios, a new security feature based on optically variable elements, that combines colour personalisation and DOVID technologies to secure secondary portraits.

The Hologram Image Register (HIR), operated by the International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA), reaches 10,000 registrations.

75th anniversary of the granting of patent GB685286, which names Dennis Gabor as the inventor and the British Thomson-Houston company as the assignee of a technique for

improving the resolution of electron microscopes, which lay the foundation for Gabor’s later invention of holography.