Patent Portfolio
9 Families (F1-F9) - Constitutional Runtime Intellectual Property
ETHRAEON's patent portfolio comprises 16 filed U.S. provisional applications / 75 technical specifications / 9 families. Constitutional Runtime IP covering delegation firewall architecture, kill condition protocols, multi-agent adhesion, drift detection systems, and dual-use monitoring frameworks.
Status: Provisional filing in progress via Fridman Law PLLC. The portfolio's prior-art positioning is anchored across 4 key families: Constitutional Substrate (ETH-PAT-001), Kill Condition (ETH-PAT-004), Rollback Protocol (ETH-PAT-005), Constitutional Certification (ETH-PAT-011).
NDA Required: Full patent specifications, claims dependence diagrams, and implementation documentation available under Non-Disclosure Agreement for institutional review. (Detailed specifications are withheld from public surfaces and protected under the Schedule A+ IP Firewall.)
Core Patent Families
ETH-PAT-001
Constitutional Runtime Substrate
Foundational architecture for human-sovereign AI governance. Addresses the central governance question of the frontier era: as capability accelerates, who governs what an autonomous system does. Constitutional layer ensures AI systems cannot exceed delegation scope. Claims 1-18 cover substrate initialization, governance binding, and authority escalation protocols.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-002
Systematic Constitutional Containment (SCC) Framework
Complete SCC implementation methodology. 30 operational modules, 89 compiler rules, orientation-before-automation doctrine. Governance infrastructure deployed before autonomous behavior crystallizes at the capability frontier, on the timeline the field itself now treats as urgent.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-003
Multi-Agent Adhesion Protocol
Governance persistence at machine-speed coordination. As AI agents orchestrate across infrastructure, adhesion ensures constitutional binding survives continuous model updates, prompt injections, and jailbreak attempts. Built for high-volume institutional workflows where governance must not degrade under load.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-004
Kill Condition Protocol - Autonomous Behavior Detection
Fail-safe for alignment failure. Detects emergence of autonomous behavior before crystallization. Real-time monitoring triggers rollback when AI systems exhibit goal-seeking independent of human authorization. Not post-hoc remediation - preventive constitutional containment.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-005
Rollback Protocol - Government Misuse Containment
Constitutional constraint for misuse by individuals and by institutions. When organizational deployment conflicts with constitutional governance, the rollback protocol activates. ETHRAEON provides a neutral third-party governance layer that keeps deployment and institutional authority from colliding.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-006
Distributed Kill Switch Architecture
Mitigates the centralization risk of concentrated frontier capability. Distributed consensus prevents single-point weaponization. Weaponization exposure is quantified via IWRS (Infrastructure Weaponization Risk Score). Kill switch requires M-of-N constitutional authorities.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-007
Empathy Mapping Framework for AI Governance
Behavioral governance infrastructure. Maps human empathy constraints onto AI decision-making. Prevents institutional discontinuity by ensuring AI systems internalize human-compatible value frameworks before capability deployment.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-008
Drift Detection System for Capability Frontier
Exponential monitoring for exponential capability acceleration. As models approach and exceed human performance on a widening range of tasks, drift detection provides early warning before alignment failure crystallizes. Monitors the CDI capability ceiling in real time as the gap between rising capability and static safe-deployment widens.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-009
Simulation Framework for Governance Testing
Simulation-first methodology: test AI governance in simulation before production deployment. Synthetic constitutional conflict scenarios identify rollback protocol failures before real-world activation. Surfaces deployment-versus-authority conflicts through pre-deployment governance validation.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-010
Data Spine Infrastructure for Enterprise AI
Data spine backbone architecture. Constitutional governance requires unified data infrastructure - no adhesion without backbone. Enterprise-scale deployment across many concurrent workflows necessitates a persistent governance layer spanning fragmented data sources.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-011
Constitutional Governance Certification for Democratic AI
Third-party constitutional layer for international governance markets. Democratic governance structures are central to how sovereign markets adopt frontier AI. ETHRAEON certification provides a constitutional adhesion standard that a frontier lab and a government customer can adopt in common. Prevents weaponization while enabling democratic deployment at scale.
Filing in Progress
ETH-PAT-012
CDI Measurement Framework (Capability-Deployment Index)
Quantifies the governance-gap infrastructure opportunity. A large Capability-Deployment Index reading triggers the constitutional governance mandate. Measures the capability ceiling (accelerating) against the safe-deployment floor (nearly static). Operationalizes the economic-displacement dimension of dual-use risk.
Filing Pending
ETH-PAT-013
Dual-Use Monitoring Indices (ACI/IWRS/FSE/PAOI/CCSM)
Five indices operationalize the dual-use risk surface: ACI
(Authoritarian Cost Index) for government misuse, IWRS (Infrastructure Weaponization Risk) for deployment-versus-authority conflicts, FSE (Freedom-Safety Equilibrium) for democratic-versus-authoritarian deployment paths, PAOI (Physics Acceleration Opportunity) for scientific-abundance upside, CCSM (Civilization Clearing Stability) for institutional-precedent failure.
Filing Pending
ETH-PAT-014
Delegation Firewall - Layer 1 through Layer 4 Certification
Constitutional boundary enforcement at every capability level. L1 Basic (narrow delegation),
L2 Enhanced (coordinated tasks), L3 Advanced (multi-agent orchestration), L4 Constitutional (sovereign
authority).
No AI system exceeds certification level. Human authority remains sovereign across all layers.
Filing Pending
ETH-PAT-074
Version-Bound Neural Proposals and Revocation-Aware Execution
Runtime enforcement for version-bound autonomous proposals. Each model proposal is bound to the exact
source, model, policy and authority versions in force at the moment it is made, and execution is
revocation-aware: when an authority is withdrawn or a version is superseded, dependent actions halt and
the record shows why. Technical area is runtime enforcement. Specification in the ETHRAEON corpus of 75
technical specifications; not among the 16 filed provisional applications.
Specification
Patent Strategy
Prior-Art Positioning:
- ETH-PAT-001 Constitutional Substrate: The governing question of the frontier era, who governs an autonomous system's actions, is exactly what Claims 1-18 address.
- ETH-PAT-004 Kill Condition: Autonomous-behavior emergence makes real-time detection a necessity; as alignment gets harder, a fail-safe becomes a requirement, not an option.
- ETH-PAT-005 Rollback Protocol: Misuse by individuals and by institutions is the containment architecture's core case; deployment-versus-authority conflict is a live, recurring risk.
- ETH-PAT-011 Constitutional Certification: Democratic governance structures across sovereign markets define the international third-party-governance opportunity.
Filing Timeline:
- March 2-10, 2026: Fridman Law PLLC receives the updated patent file set with current prior-art documentation
- Q2 2026: Provisional filings complete for ETH-PAT-001 through ETH-PAT-011
- Q3 2026: Utility conversions initiate for core 6 families (PAT-001 through PAT-006)
- Q4 2026: International PCT filings (EU and priority sovereign markets)
Licensing Strategy: Patent portfolio available for licensing to Tier 1 (frontier AI labs and government AI offices seeking a neutral constitutional layer), Tier 2 (OEM platform integrators), Tier 4 (venture-backed AI startups requiring governance certification). Full licensing terms available under NDA.
Access to Full Specifications
Complete patent specifications, claims diagrams, implementation protocols, and constitutional governance documentation available for institutional review under Non-Disclosure Agreement.
For patent licensing inquiries: contact.ethraeon.ai
All patent materials are protected under the Schedule A+ IP Firewall. ETHRAEON constitutional governance IP portfolio: 9 families (F1-F9), 75 technical specifications, 16 filed U.S. provisional applications.