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  "owner": "AgWaterAI Inc.",
  "owner_address": {
    "locality": "Bakersfield",
    "region": "California",
    "country": "US"
  },
  "purpose": "Virtual patent marking under 35 U.S.C. § 287 — provides constructive notice that AgWaterAI products are protected by U.S. patent-pending technology. Without this notice, damages for patent infringement run only from the date of actual notice; with this notice, damages run from the date of infringement.",
  "last_updated": "2026-05-14",
  "agwaterai_patents": [
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-005",
      "title": "CUSUM Pump Health Detection Using Soil Moisture as Downstream Diagnostic Proxy",
      "application_number": "64/014,769",
      "type": "U.S. Provisional",
      "filing_date": "2026-03-23",
      "status": "Pending",
      "owner": "AgWaterAI Inc.",
      "covers": "Sensorless agricultural pump mechanical diagnostics via downstream environmental proxy. Detects bearing/impeller degradation from soil moisture rate-of-change patterns, independent of vibration/acoustic/electrical pump-mounted instrumentation."
    },
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-006",
      "title": "WATCHDOG Sensor Data Quality and Health Verification",
      "application_number": "64/014,807",
      "type": "U.S. Provisional",
      "filing_date": "2026-03-24",
      "status": "Pending",
      "owner": "AgWaterAI Inc.",
      "covers": "Context-aware anomaly detection for in-situ soil capacitance probes. Distinguishes hardware drift from environmental variance using thermodynamic diurnal VWC fluctuations and cross-depth lag structure."
    },
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-007",
      "title": "Hardware-Free Flow Meter via Inverse Soil Profile Inference",
      "application_number": "64/014,888",
      "type": "U.S. Provisional",
      "filing_date": "2026-03-26",
      "status": "Pending",
      "owner": "AgWaterAI Inc.",
      "covers": "Statutory groundwater extraction ledger from VWC data plus pump-runtime logs, applying ML-calibrated inverse Richards approximation to output volumetric wellhead extraction values for SGMA compliance reporting."
    },
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-008",
      "title": "Ghost Pumping Detection from Shallow-Rootzone Soil Moisture Signatures",
      "application_number": "64/014,826",
      "type": "U.S. Provisional",
      "filing_date": "2026-03-25",
      "status": "Pending",
      "owner": "AgWaterAI Inc.",
      "covers": "Decentralized transboundary aquifer monitoring via in-situ shallow capacitance probes. Isolates non-ET-driven drawdown signatures in 80-120cm soil strata, independent of aerial imagery or electrical pump-mounted sensors."
    },
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-009",
      "title": "Physiological Moisture Override via Aquaporin Gating and Salinity Drag Detection",
      "application_number": "64/018,044",
      "type": "U.S. Provisional",
      "filing_date": "2026-03-29",
      "status": "Pending",
      "owner": "AgWaterAI Inc.",
      "covers": "Detection of plant water uptake limitation when soil moisture readings indicate available water but plant cannot absorb it. Uses cold-soil aquaporin gating thresholds and pore-water EC salinity drag triggers."
    },
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-010",
      "title": "Stage-Aware Controller for Authorized Irrigation Push to Third-Party Hardware",
      "application_number": "64/018,068",
      "type": "U.S. Provisional",
      "filing_date": "2026-03-29",
      "status": "Pending",
      "owner": "AgWaterAI Inc.",
      "covers": "Authorized agency-based push of phenology-aware irrigation schedules to third-party controller hardware (WiseConn, MAIT, Nelson Twig, etc.) with cryptographic audit trail for water-credit provenance."
    },
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-011",
      "title": "Edge Deterministic Contract for Sensor-to-Credit Verification Pipeline",
      "application_number": "64/021,330",
      "type": "U.S. Provisional",
      "filing_date": "2026-03-30",
      "status": "Pending",
      "owner": "AgWaterAI Inc.",
      "covers": "Edge-computed deterministic contract that binds sensor readings, pump-runtime logs, and AI model outputs into an audit-grade water-credit attestation. Anchors VWBA-aligned credit issuance to immutable on-device computation."
    }
  ],
  "licensed_patents": [
    {
      "docket": "DV-2026-004",
      "title": "Multi-Agent and Multi-Modal AI Security Orchestration System (DAG Trust Attestation)",
      "application_number": "63/984,626",
      "type": "U.S. Provisional",
      "filing_date": "2026-02-17",
      "status": "Pending",
      "owner": "Dunecrest Ventures Inc.",
      "license": {
        "type": "Exclusive license",
        "field_of_use": "Agriculture, including but not limited to irrigation scheduling, water-credit verification, SGMA compliance reporting, and agricultural sensor networks worldwide.",
        "licensee": "AgWaterAI Inc.",
        "term": "Perpetual, irrevocable for the licensed field of use"
      },
      "covers": "DAG Trust Attestation Token (TAT) for multi-agent trust chains with fan-in/fan-out topologies; cryptographic recording chain for sensor-to-credit verification pipelines."
    }
  ],
  "drafted_specifications_not_filed": [
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-001",
      "title": "PULSE — Irrigation Volume Prediction from Soil Moisture and Pump Runtime",
      "status": "Specification drafted, filing target Q3 2026"
    },
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-002",
      "title": "SENTRY — Crop Stress Detection from Multi-Depth Soil Moisture and Weather",
      "status": "Specification drafted, filing target Q3 2026"
    },
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-003",
      "title": "SGMA Compliance Burn-Rate Forecasting via Monte Carlo Allocation Modeling",
      "status": "Specification drafted, filing target Q3 2026"
    },
    {
      "docket": "AW-2026-004",
      "title": "Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion for Agricultural Decision Support",
      "status": "Specification drafted, filing target Q3 2026"
    }
  ],
  "marking_notice": "Protected by U.S. patent-pending technology (App. Nos. 64/014,769; 64/014,807; 64/014,826; 64/014,888; 64/018,044; 64/018,068; 64/021,330; and 63/984,626 under exclusive agricultural license from Dunecrest Ventures Inc.). Additional patents pending."
}