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Eight filings, and what a filing actually means

Bolt and Aeira are covered by eight provisional patent applications filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This page states the position and the part most pages leave out: what a provisional does not give us. The filings themselves go to investors and enterprise buyers under NDA, not onto a public page.

The filings

Eight filed, in two batches.

Three over the turn of 2025 into 2026, and five in August 2026. What they cover is not listed here, and that is deliberate. A provisional is never published by the USPTO, so the only way this becomes public is if we publish it, and several of the eight describe governance mechanisms that are not visible from the outside of the product. Filing dates, subject matter, receipts and the assignment position go to enterprise customers, design partners and investors under NDA.

What a provisional is

A priority date, not a granted patent.

Nothing here has been examined

A provisional application secures a filing date for the subject matter it describes. No examiner has read these, no claims have been allowed, and nothing on this page is a granted patent. The accurate description of our position is the one we use everywhere: patent pending.

Each one runs for twelve months

A provisional expires twelve months after it is filed unless it is converted into a non-provisional or carried into a PCT application. The December 2025 and January 2026 filings reach that point at the end of 2026, and the August 2026 filings a year after that.

One further application is written and deliberately not filed

It describes an offline verifier, and it stays unfiled until the code it describes verifies green on its own test suite. Filing a description of behavior we have not yet proven would be the same mistake as claiming a capability we have not shipped, and this site exists to not do that. It is not counted in the eight.

Inventorship and assignment are a diligence question, and we answer it there

The filings are not all under the same inventorship, and the assignment record is part of the corporate file rather than a marketing claim. An investor or an acquirer asks this early and we answer it in full under NDA, with the filing receipts. We would rather point at that than print a sentence here that sounds tidier than the paperwork.

What it means for you

A buyer does not need our patents to be granted.

Nothing about your deployment depends on them

Your licence to run Bolt and Aeira comes from your agreement with us, not from the outcome of an examination. A filing that never issues changes nothing about what you deployed or what it does.

If you need to know what they cover, ask

Buyers usually ask about patents to work out where the engineering effort went, or whether a dependency of theirs is encumbered. Both are fair questions and both get a real answer under NDA, with the filing receipts, rather than a list on a web page.

Diligence questions get the file, not a summary.

Filing receipts, cover sheets and the assignment position are available to enterprise customers, design partners and investors under NDA.

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