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A patent-pending architecture for cryptographic runtime governance: seal the policy, prove what the system did, and verify the record offline.
Patent Overview
USPTO Application No. 19/433,835 · Filed December 28, 2025
Filed as “Systems and Methods for Generating and Enforcing Attested Governance Artifacts,” the application covers sealed policy artifacts measured at runtime with signed decision receipts, privacy-preserving disclosure, and tamper-evident receipt chains.
What the filing covers.
Sealed policy and runtime measurement
Sealing authorized behavior into signed policy artifacts and measuring a running subject against that sealed reference, with each governance decision recorded as a signed receipt.
Privacy-preserving disclosure
Policy-gated disclosure that records each decision as a signed, chain-linked receipt without exposing the underlying payload.
Tamper-evident receipt chain
An append-only evidence chain a verifier can re-derive offline from the public key and the published format. Every receipt present is authentic, correctly ordered, and included under the signed checkpoint, with nothing added, altered, reordered, or truncated among what is present. Payload contents stay undisclosed; receipts carry only their hash. It does not by itself prove the operator recorded every action.
Technical specification
The application is USPTO No. 19/433,835, filed December 2025, pending. The architecture it describes is documented in public technical materials; the published packages implement the evidence format and its offline verifier.
Available on npm. The reference implementation carries 384 automated tests, and its verifier renders verdicts identical to the Go and Python references on all 57 cross-stack conformance cases, including a verifier anyone can run with no third-party cryptography.
The architecture uses standard primitives (Ed25519, SHA-256, Merkle trees) and requires no Trusted Execution Environments, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, or specialized hardware. TEE attestation can be consumed as one measurement input where available, and remains optional.
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