Licensing Adaptive Query®
We're open for conversation.
If you're building autonomous agents or robotics, on-device and embodied intelligence, keyless or biological identity, AI governance and inference control, content provenance and rights, or governed payments and infrastructure — the portfolio likely reads on your roadmap. Each layer stands on its own; together they compose into one architecture.
See the Claim Charts for where each filing reads on the field.
Pre-grant terms beat post-grant.
Two ways in
If you're the engineer
Start with the how-to guides for the architecture you're evaluating and the claim charts for where the filings read on the field. When it's time to bring the conversation inside your company, hand your legal team the counsel brief — it collects everything they'll ask you for.
If you're counsel or a licensing team
The Record is the dated docket of every public filing, publication, and registration. The Patents section carries the full text of each filing, and Legal covers the marks. Reach us directly at [email protected].
How to start
Every serious conversation begins with an application and a non-refundable fee, credited toward any option or license subsequently executed. Applications are reviewed under a mutual NDA, and the fee covers that initial due diligence.
Applications are considered at our sole discretion. An application is not an option, license, or grant of any right, obligates neither party to proceed, and does not guarantee that any agreement will be made.
How licensing works
The patents and the Adaptive Query® marks are privately held. Adaptive Query LLC holds the exclusive right to license them.
The license. Adaptive Query LLC grants the patent and trademark rights needed to build on the architecture.
The condition. Use is conditioned on certification — a license is void without it, and lapses if certification is lost.
The certification. Issued separately, for a separate fee, by an independent body that maintains the technical, safety, and ethical standards a certified system must meet. That body — not Adaptive Query LLC — sets and adjudicates those standards.
The certification body is being established. To help shape the standard or take part in its governance, reach out.
Verify everything independently
Every claim on this site is checkable against an official register. Adaptive Query is a registered U.S. service mark (Reg. No. 8,328,858, Principal Register, International Class 45). The patent portfolio comprises 8 U.S. nonprovisional applications and 2 PCT applications, each carried in full text on this site; published applications are verifiable by publication number in the USPTO and WIPO registers. The dated docket is on The Record.
- U.S. App. 19/230,933 · WO2026/117592
- U.S. App. 19/326,036 · US 2026/0010525 A1 · WO2026/117630
- U.S. App. 19/366,760 · US 2026/0052096 A1 · WO2026/117661
- U.S. App. 19/388,580 · US 2026/0081772 A1 · WO2026/117676
- U.S. App. 19/452,651
- U.S. App. 19/538,221
- U.S. App. 19/561,229 · US 2026/0203421 A1
- U.S. App. 19/647,395
- PCT/US26/22839
- PCT/US26/28630
Marks
These marks identify Adaptive Query and its components. They — together with the patents and technology they identify — are available for licensing. Each is claimed as a trademark (™), held by Nicholas Clark and licensable through Adaptive Query LLC, used or intended for use in connection with the platform and its licensing. The senses given below are not exhaustive, and the goods and services associated with each mark may evolve. Federal registration as a trademark is pending or intended.
Adaptive Query® (AQ™) — Adaptive Query: the platform, framework, and brand, and, collectively, the systems, methods, and intellectual property Adaptive Query LLC is authorized to disclose or license.
Adaptive Query Intelligence™ (AQI™) — any component of Adaptive Query directed to autonomy, machine intelligence, or cognition, including, without limitation, deterministic autonomy, machine learning, artificial intelligence, artificial cognition, and human-relatable computational psychiatry and psychology.
Semantic Agent™ — Adaptive Query's authoritative, serializable software object, and any such object that incorporates or interoperates with Adaptive Query.
Adaptive Network™ — any networking system or method that incorporates, interoperates with, or is enabled by a component of Adaptive Query.
Adaptive Index™ — any indexing, namespace, or resolution system or method that incorporates or interoperates with a component of Adaptive Query.
@AQ™ — Adaptive Query's system and method for aliasing, identifying, addressing, or messaging subjects on a network, without limitation as to the nature of the subject — such as agents, devices, persons, content, or records.
AQID™ — an identifier generated under Adaptive Query for content or other artifacts.
Adaptive Coin™ — any payment, settlement, or value-transfer system or method that incorporates or interoperates with a component of Adaptive Query.
Adaptive Space™ — any spatial, navigational, localization, or environmental-mesh system or method that incorporates or interoperates with a component of Adaptive Query.
Adaptive Materials™ — any material within the Adaptive Query ecosystem, including, without limitation, credentialed structural materials and energy-storage materials.
Adaptive Query®, founded by Nick Clark, licenses its patents and marks. Serious conversations begin with an application.
Patents pending. See Legal for details.