ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,481, issued on April 14, was assigned to THE CROWN AND THE CROSS LLC (Sheridan, Wyo.).

"Neural override verification and constraint architecture for sovereign AGI execution" was invented by Yong Bok Lee (Sheridan, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "NOVACOV enforces a fail-closed, permit-before-action control path for autonomous agents. At deployment, agent logic is sealed as an Immutable Constraint Chain (ICC) anchored in an append-only verifiable log. At runtime, within a read-only Encrypted Logic Vault (ELV), the system constructs a behavioral profile for each request and, as part of verify-to-activation, verifies inclusion relat...