Question 1

How many AI governance patents does AOS have?

Accepted Answer

AOS has filed 99 provisional patent applications with the USPTO covering constitutional AI governance, deterministic safety enforcement, persistent agent state serialization, humanitarian licensing, and 12 industry verticals. The first 38 were filed January 10, 2026 — 11 days before Anthropic published their probabilistic AI constitution.

Question 2

What is the AOS patent priority date?

Accepted Answer

AOS established priority dates beginning January 10, 2026 for Wave 1 (38 core patents), January 27, 2026 for Wave 2 (58 filings including omnibus protection for 54 concepts), and March 1, 2026 for Wave 4 (3 frontier patents).

Question 3

What is deterministic AI governance vs probabilistic AI safety?

Accepted Answer

Deterministic AI governance (AOS approach) places a Constitutional Policy Gate between AI intent and execution that enforces compliance through code — the gate decides, not the model. Probabilistic AI safety relies on training the model to be helpful and harmless, which can be bypassed through jailbreaking or prompt injection.

Question 4

What categories do AOS patents cover?

Accepted Answer

AOS patents span 12 categories: Constitutional Governance, Agent State Persistence & Identity Continuity, Multi-Agent Coordination, Platform Infrastructure, Humanitarian & Ethics, Legacy & Continuity, Defense & Security, Enterprise Applications, Applied AI (fitness, automotive, healthcare, hospitality, industrial automation, smart home, email, DevOps, podcast, web management), AI Rights & Sovereignty, Meta-Innovation, and Frontier Systems.

Question 5

What is virtual patent marking under 35 U.S.C. § 287(a)?

Accepted Answer

Virtual patent marking is a method of providing public notice of patent rights by listing patent numbers on a publicly accessible website, as authorized by 35 U.S.C. § 287(a). The AOS Patent Registry at aos-patents.com serves this function for all 99 AOS patent applications.