# Patents

Aspects of the Harlo architecture are the subject of pending US provisional
patent applications filed by Joseph O. Ibrahim (ORCID: 0009-0009-2689-4966).

## Patent Pending Status

The following US provisional patent applications have been filed with the USPTO
and establish priority dates as of March 2026:

- Deterministic State-Evolution, Predictive Composition, and Cognitive Computation Architecture for Persistent AI Memory
- Falsifiability-Gated Assertion Management
- Lossless Residual Injection Architecture
- Composition-Semantic Combinatorial Search
- Sovereign Persistent Agent Memory

## License and Patent Grant

This software is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Under Section 3 of that
license, contributors grant users a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make, use, sell, and otherwise
transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims
necessarily infringed by the contribution.

If you institute patent litigation alleging that this software constitutes
patent infringement, your patent license under the Apache 2.0 license
terminates automatically (Section 3, defensive termination).

## What This Means for Users

If you use this software under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, you
receive a patent license for the contributed code. You do not need a separate
patent license to use this software as distributed.

## What This Does Not Cover

The patent grant applies to the software as contributed. It does not extend to:

- Independent implementations of the described architecture that do not use this code
- Hardware implementations
- Uses outside the scope of the Apache 2.0 license

## Contact

For questions about patent licensing, commercial licensing, or enterprise
arrangements, contact:

Joseph O. Ibrahim
jomar.ibrahim@gmail.com
