Seven patents pending with the UK Intellectual Property Office. Filed by Imperium Business Intelligence, trading as Agent Shield.
Core governance engine that enforces constitutional boundaries on every autonomous AI agent action before execution.
Trust system enabling verified governance between autonomous AI agents across organisational boundaries.
Tamper-evident audit system providing immutable records of every governance decision, satisfying regulatory requirements.
Adversarial detection system covering the full spectrum of autonomous AI agent threat patterns and governance violations.
Network-level governance intelligence system that correlates agent activity across organisational boundaries to enable collective defence.
Governance system ensuring autonomous AI agents operate within defined regulatory and authority boundaries.
Provides adaptive threat response and cryptographic containment capabilities for AI agent governance platforms under active threat conditions. Enables real-time lockdown of governed agents when adversarial threat patterns are detected.
UK national phase complete. International filing strategy under review.
The patent applications cover the specific methodologies and architectures that Agent Shield uses to implement governance. These are the proprietary implementations — the engineering that makes the system work, built over years of research and development into how governance of autonomous AI agents should be structurally enforced.
The governance standard — AGS v2.1 — is published openly under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone can read it, reference it, and build to it.
The standards define what governance should achieve. The patents protect how Agent Shield achieves it. This is the same model used by every major infrastructure standard — openly specified, exclusively implemented.
Agent Shield is the reference implementation of the governance standards published at agentgoverning.com. The standards are open. The implementation is protected by the patent applications described on this page.
For organisations interested in commercial licensing of the patented governance methodologies, integration partnerships, or use of the Agent Shield architecture within proprietary systems, please contact our licensing team directly.
ceo@agentshield.onlineThe standard is open. The implementation is protected. Both are intentional.