The portfolio · Non-proprietary overview
The four filed applications
These are the same capability quad charts we hand to program offices and primes — published here in full, because the first thing you'd ask for shouldn't take a meeting. What's deliberately not here: the formulations, layer-stack recipes, ratios, and process parameters — the proprietary how stays under NDA.
PPA-1 · The Parent
Adaptive Neuro-Shield™ — the Base Invention
Defense materials that evolve with the field.
A thermal self-healing, frequency-adaptive EM-shield composite — one cured laminate that absorbs and scatters incident energy, electrically re-tunes to the threat band, and self-repairs (>90% conductivity in ~5 min at a low ~80 °C trigger).
U.S. Provisional FILED · #64/020,126 · 28 Mar 2026
① Capability — Adaptive Attenuation, 0.1 Hz–100 GHz
- Self-tuned EM shielding across 30 MHz–100 GHz (EMI / EMP / directed-energy) — ~52–80 dB shielding effectiveness in the X-band at 0.1 mm.
Absorbs and scatters incident EM/EMP/directed-energy across 30 MHz–100 GHz — broadband shield, single laminate.
- Bio-frequency damping 0.1–40 Hz (neural-field stabilization), plus epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) auto-matching at 240–380 MHz.
Auto-tunes peak absorption to the incoming band — ENZ resonance steered to the live threat frequency.
② Self-Healing & Frequency-Adaptive
- Self-healing: >90% conductivity recovery in ~5 min at a ~80 °C trigger — inside normal platform thermal cycling.
Self-repairs conductive damage in-field — >90% recovery in ~5 min at a low +80 °C thermal trigger.
- Frequency-adaptive: ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE) phase lets the composite electrically re-tune which band it blocks hardest.
Electrically re-tunes its strongest absorption band — ferroelectric phase shifts the shield to match the attack.
③ Architecture — One Self-Healing Matrix
- A single self-healing matrix combining: MXene + graphene (conductive); a ferroelectric phase (tunable); a soft-magnetic phase (low-frequency); and a dynamic-covalent polymer (self-heal). Built by dispersion → deposition → cure, with sensorized feedback.
Multi-phase self-healing laminate — conductive, frequency-tunable, and thermally self-repairing in one cured material.
④ Status & IP
- IP — U.S. provisional FILED: Application #64/020,126, filed 28 Mar 2026, titled "Adaptive Neuro-Shield — Self-Healing, Frequency-Adaptive Electromagnetic Shielding Composite."
Base provisional on file — priority date locked at the parent of the ANS portfolio.
- Maturity (honest): constituent materials at TRL 4–6; integrated validation is the next step.
Constituent phases at TRL 4–6 — integrated-laminate validation is the remaining step.
- Sovereign IP: wholly inventor-owned — no university or government-funding encumbrance.
Wholly inventor-owned — unencumbered, free and clear to license.
WHAT PPA-1 IS — The parent invention of the ANS portfolio: a single load-bearing composite skin that shields across a broad electromagnetic band, re-tunes which band it blocks hardest, and heals its own damage in minutes — all in one material rather than a stack of bolt-on parts. PPA-2 hardens it; PPA-3 / HETD adds the structural frame; PPA-4 / ARI prints it into parts.
Enabling material architecture & process detail available under mutual NDA. This section states what the material is engineered to do, with numbers. It deliberately does not disclose the formulations, layer-stack recipes, mixing ratios, or process parameters — the proprietary how.
PPA-2 · The Hardening
Multi-Domain Adaptive Electromagnetic Defense Composite
Hardened to take the pulse — from the slowest surge to the highest microwave.
One adaptive composite skin doing what no fielded material does together: hardens across the whole EM threat band — triple-EMP (E1–E3) + high-power-microwave / directed-energy — re-tunes in milliseconds, harvests the incoming attack energy into stored power for its own electronics, and self-repairs at a low ~80 °C thermal trigger.
U.S. Provisional FILED · #64/081,373 · 3 Jun 2026
① Triple-EMP, Single Layer
- E1 (fast nuclear flash): 1 MHz–1 GHz, ~2.5 ns rise, peak ≥ 50 kV/m. E2: lightning-class (1 µs–1 s). E3: geomagnetic, down to ~1 mHz.
Dissipates fast E1 nuclear-flash AND slow E3 geomagnetic surge — full triple-EMP coverage in one layer.
- Protected spectrum: ~1 mHz – ~10 THz electromagnetically, plus an optical sub-band.
Shields a continuous ~1 mHz–10 THz window plus an optical sub-band — whole-spectrum threat coverage.
② HPM Hardening & Energy Harvest
- HPM atmospheric-window hardening: ≥ 60 dB shielding at each of 22 / 35 / 94 / 140 / 220 GHz (design target).
Absorbs high-power-microwave / directed energy — ≥60 dB at the 22/35/94/140/220 GHz atmospheric windows.
- Threat-energy harvesting: converts incident threat-field power into stored electricity for the skin's own protective electronics (defensive only).
Harvests incident threat-field power into stored electricity for the skin's own protective electronics (defensive only).
③ Adaptive Response
- Re-tunes in ~10 ms (down to ≤1 ms in fast-mode); ~100 ms predictive (ML) retune that anticipates the threat (design targets).
Adapts the shield in ~10 ms (≤1 ms fast-mode), with ~100 ms ML-predictive retune that pre-positions before impact.
④ Sovereign Layer & Status
- Anti-coupling "sovereign layer" + bioelectric anomaly detection — defensive sensing only.
Suppresses back-door EM coupling and flags hostile pulses via bioelectric anomaly sensing — defensive sensing only.
- IP — U.S. provisional FILED: Application #64/081,373, filed 3 Jun 2026; supplements parent #64/020,126.
Hardening provisional on file — supplements parent #64/020,126, priority date secured.
- Defensive scoping: passive / responsive protective skin only — no offensive EM, no biological-targeting function (negative limitations in every independent claim).
Passive/responsive protective skin — no offensive EM, no bio-targeting; negative limitations in every independent claim.
WHAT PPA-2 ADDS — PPA-2 is the supplement that hardened the ANS parent into a full multi-domain defense skin: triple-EMP coverage in one layer, high-power-microwave hardening across the key bands, harvesting of the threat's own energy, sub-millisecond adaptive re-tuning, and an anti-coupling sovereign layer with defensive-only bioelectric sensing — protecting ~1 mHz to ~10 THz.
Enabling material architecture & process detail available under mutual NDA. This section states what the material is engineered to do, with numbers, thresholds, and threat windows. It deliberately does not disclose the formulations, layer-stack recipes, mixing ratios, or process parameters — the proprietary how.
PPA-3 / HETD · The Structural Companion
High-Energy Transient Defense — the Armored Frame
An armored frame graded to soak the blast and the pulse at once.
A rigid, load-bearing structural skin graded to absorb a physical blast and a high-energy electromagnetic pulse at the same time — built to survive extreme high-energy transients (EMP-scale and directed-energy pulses, pyroshock, hypervelocity impact), self-supporting without vacuum, and sealing the seams where energy leaks back in.
U.S. Provisional FILED · #64/086,584 · 9 Jun 2026
① Co-Designed Dual-Domain Gradient
- One sub-layer stack grades BOTH the mechanical/acoustic impedance and the electromagnetic impedance through its thickness — a single co-designed gradient, not two separate stacks.
Dissipates both a mechanical blast and an EM pulse in one co-designed gradient — mechanical and EM impedance graded together.
② Simultaneous Multi-Domain Dissipation
- Absorbs a mechanical / blast / shock transient AND a high-energy EM transient within a common, overlapping time window — both energies graded into a dissipative interior rather than reflected at an abrupt interface.
Absorbs a blast/shock transient and a high-energy EM transient in one overlapping window — graded into the interior, not reflected.
③ Self-Supporting Structure
- Self-supporting: ≥ 50 MPa interlaminar shear — holds its form under flight / vehicular / launch loads without external vacuum hold-down (design target).
Self-supports under flight/launch loads — ≥50 MPa interlaminar shear, rigid and load-bearing without vacuum hold-down.
④ Aperture / Seam Control
- Suppresses EM re-radiation through apertures, seams, joints, and fastener lines via continuity co-cured into the structure; integrally-molded waveguide-below-cutoff depth-to-width ≥ 3:1 (design target).
Suppresses EM re-radiation at seams, joints, and fastener lines — co-cured continuity, waveguide-below-cutoff depth-to-width ≥3:1.
⑤ Form Factor
- Rigid, non-morphing, load-bearing chassis / airframe / spacecraft skin. Embodiments include hypersonic leading-edge and submarine hull penetration.
Rigid non-morphing load-bearing chassis/airframe/spacecraft skin — hypersonic leading-edge and submarine-hull embodiments.
⑥ Status & IP
- U.S. provisional FILED: Application #64/086,584, filed 9 Jun 2026 (Conf. #3680). Companion to filed provisionals #64/020,126, #64/081,373, and #64/087,652 (ARI); uses those materials only as a constituent (no double-claim).
Filed structural companion — priority date locked 9 Jun 2026; pairs with the three filed companions, constituent-only, no double-claim.
- Defensive scoping: passive dissipation / suppression / impedance-matching only — no offensive EM, no biological-targeting (negative limitations in every independent claim).
Passive dissipation/suppression/impedance-matching only — no offensive EM, no bio-targeting; negative limitations in every claim.
WHAT PPA-3 / HETD ADDS — HETD is the structural companion to the filed ANS material patents: one rigid, load-bearing build whose single graded sub-layer stack eases both a mechanical blast and a high-energy electromagnetic pulse within the same time window, stands on its own without a vacuum crutch (≥ 50 MPa target), and seals the seams and openings where energy leaks back in.
Enabling material architecture & process detail available under mutual NDA. This section states what the structure is engineered to do, with design targets. It deliberately does not disclose the layer-stack recipes, gradient profiles, or process parameters — the proprietary how.
PPA-4 / ARI · The Manufacturing Key
Adaptive Reinforcement Ink: the Portfolio, Printed
Print the armor in — never paint it on.
A 3D-printable conductive ink that builds broadband EMI/EMP shielding AND structural reinforcement into a printed part in a single pass — no post-fabrication coating, ever — with the protected frequency band set by the recipe and the printed pattern, and self-healing embodiments in which the absorbed attack's own heat becomes the repair trigger.
U.S. Provisional FILED · #64/087,652 · 10 Jun 2026
① Single Pass, Dual Function
- One deposited filler network provides BOTH electromagnetic shielding and mechanical reinforcement — claimed with an affirmative "no post-fabrication coating step" limitation: the method itself forbids the second step everyone else needs.
The print IS the shield — no spray booth, no added mass, no coating to crack, peel, or leak at the seams.
- Shielding targets: ≥20 dB X-band representative marker at ≥1 mm; ≥40 dB X-band at 2–5 mm (carbon lane) or 1–2 mm (metal / MXene lane).
99–99.99% of incident X-band energy stopped at millimeter wall thicknesses — targets anchored to published printed-composite results.
② Frequency-Adaptive by Print
- Tuned by formulation: filler identity and loading set the conductivity, sheet resistance, and shielding band of the deposited material — three claimed loading lanes from minimal-mass to maximal-conductivity.
Pick the recipe, pick the band — same printer, different ink lane, different protection profile.
- Tuned by pattern: a printed frequency-selective deposition pattern whose unit-cell period and element geometry set the resonant / absorptive frequency of the part.
Tune the shield in the slicer — the printed pattern itself selects which threat band the part attacks hardest.
③ Self-Healing & Strength Claims
- Self-healing embodiments (claimed): a dynamic-bond matrix restores electrical conductivity after thermal or mechanical damage — and the absorbed threat's own heat can serve as the thermal repair trigger.
Hostile energy redirected into recovery — the attack supplies the heat that heals the shield.
- Reinforcement claims: elastic-modulus increase of ≥50% (floor) with a claimed ≥150% tier — anchored to published +177% modulus in printed CNT/PLA at 15 wt%.
The same network that shields also stiffens the part — up to 2.5× the bare polymer's modulus in the published anchor system.
- Prints the whole portfolio: DIW paste/gel and FDM filament forms; claimed embodiments deposit the PPA-1 shielding composite, PPA-2 multi-domain material, and PPA-3-consistent graded reinforcement as constituents (constituent-only — no double-claim).
One ink and method that can lay down every material in the ANS family — without re-claiming them.
④ Status & IP
- IP — U.S. provisional FILED: Application #64/087,652, filed 10 Jun 2026 (Conf. #7756) — completing the four-application ANS portfolio.
Priority date locked — the full portfolio is now on file at USPTO.
- Maturity (honest): constituent technologies range from lab-validated to commercially fielded (component TRL ~4–9: conductive feedstocks and FSS are established art); only the integration is new (TRL 2–3). Low-risk ingredients, high-value recipe.
Every ingredient already works in the published record — the invention is the recipe and the single-pass method.
- Sovereign & defensive: wholly inventor-owned, unencumbered; D1–D4 defensive-only locks recited in all four independent claims.
Free and clear to license — and purely defensive by claim construction, not just by policy.
WHAT PPA-4 ADDS — The manufacturing key to the whole portfolio. Everyone else makes a part and then coats it; ARI prints the shield and the strength into the part in one pass, tunes the protected band with the recipe and the printed pattern, and in self-healing embodiments turns the absorbed attack's heat into the repair signal. PPA-1 is the smart material, PPA-2 hardens it, PPA-3 is the armored frame — ARI is the ink that prints them into hardware.
Enabling formulation & process detail available under mutual NDA. This section states what the ink and method are engineered to do, with claim-level features. It deliberately does not disclose formulations, loading ratios, rheology windows, or print parameters — the proprietary how.