A plain-English companion to ATOFIA's issued patent portfolio. Each patent gets its own group: an overview plus a short series of articles explaining the problem it solves, how the claimed invention works, and what makes it novel. Grounded in the public filings — written for engineers, not lawyers.
Nine issued patents, grouped into four families — Foundation, Identity & Gateway, Value Sets, and Entropy Engines. Every patent links to its live filing on Google Patents and, as the series rolls out, to a dedicated overview and article cluster. Articles are publishing on a rolling cadence; the foundation patent is live now.
Family 01 · Foundation
The broadest patents in the portfolio — the keyless encryption scheme and the trusted-setup protocol that the rest of the portfolio builds on.
The foundation patent. Data encryption, decryption, and authentication with no certificate authorities, signatures, hashes, or asymmetric crypto. Read the overview ›
Establishing a trusted setup on a computer without delegating trust to a third party. Deep dive in progress.
Family 02 · Identity & Gateway
Binding identity to a device-and-user pair, and the non-interactive gateway proofs that replace a chatty handshake.
Identity rooted in a unique device-and-user profile rather than a stored secret. Deep dive in progress.
Non-interactive gateway proofs paired with an integrity check. Deep dive in progress.
Family 03 · Value Sets
The data layer — the per-message value sets that encrypt, decrypt, and travel across the wire without a shared key.
The six-value encryption value set: mixing scheme, bit value, two matrix sizes, and two deciders. Deep dive in progress.
The decryption-side counterpart that reverses ciphertext without a transmitted key. Deep dive in progress.
Moving a value set across the network so that interception does not break the cipher. Deep dive in progress.
A cross-cutting article will explain how the three value-set patents interlock into one data-layer story.
Family 04 · Entropy Engines
Where the patents meet the physics — transformation engines that run entropy functions on a matrix whose very dimensions are derived, not fixed. The tightest bridge to our thermodynamic cryptography research.
Each transformation engine executes a different entropy function on the input matrix. Deep dive in progress.
Why the matrix dimensions are themselves generated, turning fixed block geometry into a moving target. Deep dive in progress.