Licensing
126 patent-pending families. Core infrastructure is pledged open. Commercial families fund the foundation.
Patent portfolio
NOEVA holds 126 patent-pending families covering privacy-preserving identity, consent preservation, AI safety, and decentralised infrastructure. About 35 families are pledged open under RAND-Z terms. The rest are commercially licensed, with revenue funding the open infrastructure and research.
Key patent families
| Family | Title | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| 54 | Universal Constellation | Identity as weighted graph |
| 92 | NUID | Semantic identifiers with jurisdiction scope |
| 94 | CRL | Cognitive routing with refusal-to-route |
| 100-104 | RESOLVE | AI-mediated conflict resolution |
| 105 | Reciprocity | Care economy with temporal decay |
| 107 | DNI | Distributed network intelligence |
| 108-117 | Consent Family | Federated, embodied, marketplace consent |
| 122 | Agent Value Exchange | Consent-bounded agent economics |
Licensing approach
The core infrastructure patents are pledged open because adoption requires trust. Commercial patents fund the foundation, the research, and the care economy.
~35 families are available under RAND-Z (zero royalty) terms for open source implementations
~55 families are commercially licensed, funding the open infrastructure
Research and humanitarian use supported across all families
Defensive protection for the open ecosystem
Contact licensing@noeva.foundation to discuss specific use cases.
Licensing options
Four ways to use NOEVA patents.
Open source
~35 core infrastructure families are available under RAND-Z terms for any conforming open source implementation. See the pledge below for the full list.
Cost: Free (RAND-Z)
Commercial licence
For commercial implementations, proprietary extensions, or use of the ~55 commercial patent families. Custom terms for enterprise deployments.
Cost: Negotiated
Research and academic
Research use supported across all families. Contact us with your project details.
Contact: research@noeva.foundation
Humanitarian use
Humanitarian organisations and projects serving vulnerable populations are supported.
Contact: humanitarian@noeva.foundation
Open infrastructure pledge
Not all 126 families are open. Some fund the foundation through commercial licensing. But the core infrastructure protocols are pledged open, because they need adoption to be valuable, and adoption requires trust.
The pledge
The following patent families are available under RAND-Z (royalty-free) terms for any conforming open source implementation of NOEVA protocols. Commercial implementations require a separate licence.
Foundation layer (identity, consent, safety)
Families 01-10: constellation architecture, agent identity, consent and state, safety and governance, recovery, Indra network, mesh identity
Protocol layer (communication, content, rights)
Families 17 (HCP), 18 (user rights), 19 (adaptive content), 24 (content provenance)
Defence layer (privacy, anti-extraction)
Families 15 (defensive patterns), 25 (anti-engagement), 26 (collective intelligence), 32 (distributed witness), 35 (youth sovereignty), 53 (anti-sybil), 91 (traffic obfuscation)
Addressing and credibility
Families 28-31: constellation addressing, navigation, provenance, credibility signals
Platform integration
Families 36 (progressive adoption), 82-88 (SDK, attestation, compliance, LoRa, satellite, sneakernet transport)
What's open
The roads. Identity protocols, consent architecture, safety layers, transport. Everything needed to build interoperable, privacy-preserving infrastructure. Free for open source. Commercially licensed for proprietary use.
What's commercial
The buildings on those roads. Coherence hardware, emotional modelling, specialised applications, the care economy architecture. Revenue from commercial licensing funds the open infrastructure and the research.
Why this matters
The patent portfolio exists to protect open infrastructure, not to extract rent. By establishing prior art and defensive patents, NOEVA ensures that privacy-preserving identity infrastructure cannot be locked up by extractive platforms.
These patents cover the full stack of human-centred AI: from how identity is represented, to how consent propagates, to how agents transact. The goal is an open ecosystem where anyone can build, with protocol-level guarantees that safety constraints cannot be removed.
Protecting infrastructure so it stays open.