Seven patents pending with the UK Intellectual Property Office. Filed by Imperium Business Intelligence, trading as Agent Shield.
Covering AI agent governance methods and systems across the Agent Shield platform. Details of individual applications are available to qualified partners under NDA.
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 patent applications describe how Agent Shield achieves it. This is the same model used by every major infrastructure standard — openly specified, proprietarily implemented.
Agent Shield is the reference implementation of the governance standards published at agentgoverning.com. The standards are open. The implementation is the subject of the patent applications described on this page.
For organisations interested in commercial licensing of the patent-pending 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 proprietary. Both are intentional.