Foundational by design. One granted patent, three published provisionals, US priority to 2016.

The patent portfolio that makes the Quantum Privacy Network enforceable — and freely licensable via QPIIN partnership.

The portfolio, in five numbers.

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Thesis

A single architectural anchor; every later filing inherits its primitives.

This portfolio is organized around a single architectural anchor. US 12,316,610 B1, granted May 27, 2025 with priority to March 16, 2016, secures the core primitives — Privacy Domains, Trust Criteria, Proof of Trust, Trust Blocks, and trust-governed execution environments — that together define a new class of privacy-preserving, trust-verified digital infrastructure.

Every subsequent filing is architecturally dependent on these primitives rather than claiming novelty in isolation. Each later claim is written as a specialization, extension, or application-level embodiment that operates only within the patented infrastructure — each scoped by a limiting "wherein" clause that confines it to systems comprising at least one already-patented core primitive.

The result: everything necessary to enable the Quantum Privacy Network, the Privacy Network Exchange, the Catalyst Network, and the broader QPN ecosystem is already protected at the granted-patent level, with provisional coverage adding granular, enforceable protection at every layer. Because the portfolio is freely licensed via QPIIN partnership, the rational path for builders, integrators, and operators is to join the ecosystem and contribute — not to compete around it.

Priority chain

A 2016 anchor, kept open by a pending CIP.

Priority chain · diagram

From the 2016 provisional to the granted anchor, with the pending CIP open and four parallel 2025 provisionals awaiting roll-in.

Priority chain · list

From the 2016 provisional to the granted anchor, with the pending CIP open and four parallel 2025 provisionals awaiting roll-in.

Mar 16, 2016

62/309,153 Earliest US provisional. First-to-file priority anchor.
Mar 17, 2017

15/461,400 Continuation.
Mar 19, 2018

15/925,125 Continuation.
Mar 19, 2019

16/357,662 Continuation.
2021

17/321,700 Continuation. Prosecuted to grant.
Granted May 27, 2025

US 12,316,610 B1 Lead granted patent. Anchors every downstream filing.
Details redacted

Bridge provisional Source of new subject matter for the pending CIP. Application number and filing date not public.
Pending

Pending CIP Continuation-in-part. Inherits 2016 priority; adds new subject matter from the bridge provisional.

Parallel 2025 provisionals · each rolls in via CIP, inheriting 2016 priority

Oct 7, 2025 WS-PNX-2025-001 — Privacy Network Exchange — Trust-Verified Tokenization & Settlement.
Nov 27, 2025 [Health] — QP-Enabled Personalized, Value-Based Universal Exchange for Better Health.
Nov 22, 2025 [AI Safety] — QP-Enabled Self-Funding AI Trust, Safety & Compliance.
Dec 4, 2025 63/931,387 — Self-Funding, Self-Organizing Quantum Privacy Exchange and Accelerator Network.

A 2016 first-to-file priority, preserved through an unbroken chain of continuation-in-part filings, anchors every later claim. A pending CIP keeps the chain open: new patentable subject matter can be added at any time while inheriting the 2016 priority date.

This continuous-extension capability is why the portfolio expands without losing its foundation. The four independent provisionals filed in late 2025 will be rolled into parallel CIP filings via the same mechanism, each inheriting the 2016 priority once folded into the chain.

Patent strategy primitive

The Wherein clause: how new claims inherit 2016 priority.

The canonical Wherein clause — "wherein the system executes within a QPN-enabled infrastructure comprising at least one of: QPCs, Privacy Domains, Trust Criteria, Proof-of-Trust, Trust Blocks, or EasyAccess workflow threads" — combines elements drawn from five already-allowed independent claims in granted US 12,316,610 B1. When included in a new claim, the clause causes that claim to inherit 2016 priority for the recited QPN-infrastructure elements, materially increasing allowance probability and providing structural defensive strength.

Effect 1

Priority inheritance

The new claim relies on the 2016 priority date for the QPN-infrastructure elements recited in the Wherein clause — applied for §102/§103 prior-art analysis on those elements.

Effect 2

§103 non-obviousness defense

The QPN-infrastructure elements are established prior art held by the same inventor, making the combination structurally less vulnerable to obviousness challenges than purely new combinations.

Effect 3

§112 enablement automatic

Each element named in the Wherein clause is fully enabled by US 12,316,610 B1's specification — already accepted by the USPTO as enabling for the granted claims. No additional enablement burden on the new application.

Without the clause 60–95% allowance examiner-dependent; standard §101 / §102 / §103 / §112 variability.

With the clause 96–98% allowance priority inheritance + §103 defense + automatic §112 enablement combine to make rejection structurally difficult.

Strategic prosecution option. File initial provisional claims without the Wherein clause; if the examiner allows the broader formulation, the patent gets broader scope. If rejected, amend the Wherein clause in via continuation — inheriting 2016 priority and reaching the 96–98% allowance band. Downside-bounded optionality: WebShield never receives less than the Wherein-clause-protected scope.

The portfolio

Six filings, grouped by status. One granted, three published provisionals, two QPIIN-gated.

Granted Patent #1 · Featured

Privacy Network and Unified Trust Model for Privacy-Preserving Computation and Policy Enforcement

USPTO US 12,316,610 B1 ·Docket WEBS.07CIP

Granted May 27, 2025 ·Priority Mar 16, 2016 ·Application 17/321,700 ·19 claims ·5 independent ·157 drawing sheets

Protects each of the fundamental innovations essential to enabling Quantum Privacy, Proof of Trust, the Unified Trust Model, Personal & Enterprise Privacy Networks, the Authorization Network, the Privacy Network Exchange, and Exchange Tokens — with implementation-neutral claims language inheriting 2016 first-to-file priority.

Start with independent claims 1, 16, 17, 18, 19 — these define the core primitives. Claims 2–15 are dependent and specialize across the capability areas.

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Provisional · Published Patent #5

QP-Enabled Personalized, Value-Based Universal Exchange for Better Health

Filed Nov 27, 2025 ·508 claims

Cryptographically bounded Privacy Domains, Trust Blocks binding data and policy across workflows, zero-knowledge eligibility determinations, automated prior authorization, outcomes-based contracting, federated genomics, and AI Personal Health Agents.

Provisional filing — subject matter still under examination; claim language in the forthcoming CIP will be narrower and more precise.

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Provisional · Published Patent #6

QP-Enabled Self-Funding AI Trust, Safety & Compliance

Filed Nov 22, 2025 ·432 claims

Specifies the Quantum Privacy AI Network, deterministic replay, zero-knowledge multi-agent negotiation, trust-weight calculation, federated cleanroom synchronization, and cryptographically governed actuation for embodied AI and robotics. Makes scaling AI capability and scaling AI safety the same engineering problem.

Provisional filing — subject matter still under examination; claim language in the forthcoming CIP will be narrower and more precise.

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Provisional · Published Patent #7

Self-Funding, Self-Organizing Quantum Privacy Exchange and Accelerator Network

Application 63/931,387

Filed Dec 4, 2025 ·390 claims

Specifies Quantum Privacy Cells as Delaware Series LLCs, the Quantum Privacy Exchange, Quantum Privacy Accelerators, zero and near-zero marginal-cost tokenization, dual-use deployment on existing infrastructure, and crowdsourced network scaling through existing devices and agreements.

Provisional filing — subject matter still under examination; claim language in the forthcoming CIP will be narrower and more precise.

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The next two filings are available to QPIIN partners under a QPC Participation Agreement. Detailed contents — dates, application numbers, claim language — are not publicly disclosed.

Continuation-in-Part · Pending Patent #2

Quantum Privacy, Proof of Trust, and Privacy Network Exchange (CIP)

A pending CIP keeps the patent chain open. It allows continuous addition of new patentable subject matter — drawn from active development, partner collaboration, and new provisional filings — while inheriting the 2016 first-to-file priority. The CIP's specific dates, application number, and claim contents are intentionally not public.

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Provisional · QPIIN-gated Patent #3

Privacy Network Exchange: Trust-Verified Tokenization & Settlement

Establishes the Privacy Network Exchange architecture: resource pools, exchange networks, liquidity pools, trust-weighted liquidity mechanics, agentic governance, federated cross-domain settlement, and multi-jurisdictional tokenization.

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Cybersecurity capabilities — including quantum-safe protections — are inherited via the granted patent's dependent claims (covering cryptography, tokenization, and verification) and the underlying provisional that feeds the pending CIP. Not listed as a separate filing.

Named inventors on all filings: Richard Arthur Muth · Jonathan Paul Hare.

Core mechanisms

Four patented mechanisms make the Four Foundations enforceable.

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Quantum Privacy

The computational mechanism that makes sensitive data usable without exposure. Privacy algorithms render data opaque while preserving the ability to aggregate, link, analyze, and compute on it — without revealing the contents to any party, including the systems performing the computation.

Originates in: US 12,316,610 B1
Structural role: Enables data to cross organizational boundaries without custody transfer, and to be used by systems that never see its contents — eliminating the need for bilateral integration between every pair of participating organizations.

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Proof of Trust

Distributed governance protocol: any stakeholder specifies trust criteria; criteria auto-inherit across aggregates and derivatives; all applicable criteria must be satisfied before release.

Originates in: US 12,316,610 B1
Structural role: Makes rules enforceable at runtime, not just at setup. Authorizes more powerful AI by requiring stronger provenance and accountability.

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Unified Trust Model

Composable framework of Trust Taxonomies representing security, privacy, regulatory, contractual, fiduciary, and ethical obligations as machine-enforceable policy — bound to data by Trust Blocks that persist across transformations.

Originates in: US 12,316,610 B1
Structural role: Lets organizations with different rules interoperate without collapsing their distinctions. Supports cross-domain settlement.

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EasyAccess

The engagement layer of the Quantum Privacy Network. EasyAccess is how applications, services, and people connect into Personal Privacy Networks to deliver personalized experiences without ever taking custody of identities or sensitive information. Built on OAuth 2.0 so any application can adopt it as a drop-in identity, authorization, consent, and engagement layer with no proprietary integration required.

Originates in: Patent #2 CIP (Pending)
Structural role: Lets applications connect into Personal Privacy Networks as relying parties for authorization and as requesting parties for data and services. Applications gain authenticated users, identity- and relationship-aware authorization, and privacy-preserving reach through EasyAccess Consent, Links, and Messaging. The participation layer for Universal Access.

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Portfolio analysis & QPIIN gateway

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The portfolio is freely published and broadly licensed to participants through the Quantum Privacy International Innovation Network (QPIIN). Joining QPIIN is free; the Quantum Privacy Cell (QPC) Participation Agreement that comes with it preserves trade-secret protection over everything we share that is not yet public — including the pending CIP, the PNX provisional, and additional inventions emerging from active development.

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