# Patent 3rd Application — Edge-computing veterinary diagnostic system + hybrid-inference method (the three-layer architecture)

**Status:** 🔴 **In priority drafting · Target UKIPO filing within 7 days of 2026-05-09**

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## Headline

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Application number | (to be assigned upon UKIPO submission, mid-May 2026) |
| Title | Edge-computing veterinary diagnostic system with hybrid-inference method |
| Owner | AgroInsights Technologies Limited |
| Inventors | Diaz-Albertini, Rafael · Albertini, Richard J |
| Drafting status | Final priority application (in-house authored, no external advisor input) |
| Target filing | **Within 7 days of 2026-05-09 — i.e., by ~2026-05-16** |
| Filing route | UKIPO priority + Green Channel acceleration request alongside priority |
| PCT extension | Q3 2027 |
| Inventorship discipline | In-house drafting only — no external advisor on edge-AI / microneedle / bovine CDS / cryptographic anchoring until filed (per WS-3 Decision 2 ratification 2026-05-09) |

## What the patent covers

The integrated three-layer Sensor → Edge → Cloud architecture plus the hybrid-inference method:

1. **Sensor tier** — wearable biosensor (Cortex-M class firmware on Nordic nRF5340 SoC + CR2477H battery + BLE 5.x coded-PHY + Semtech SX1262 LoRa) collecting interstitial-fluid biomarkers from livestock.
2. **Edge gateway tier** — on-farm AI-class compute (NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8 GB primary; Pi 5 + Coral TPU value-tier) running multi-biomarker pathway classification locally.
3. **Hybrid-inference method** — three-band confidence-banded escalation policy:
   - `confidence ≥ 0.85` → return local verdict immediately
   - `0.60 ≤ confidence < 0.85` → return local verdict + queue cloud-augmentation
   - `confidence < 0.60` → await cloud verdict before returning user-facing result
4. **Intelligence-network architecture** — aggregating anonymised cross-farm pathway data without cross-farm raw-data egress (data-sovereignty native).

## Why it matters — keystone of the IP portfolio

- GB2514352.0 protects the **multi-sensor concept** (breadth claim).
- GB2514773.7 protects the **verified-provenance / blockchain-anchored chain-of-custody** (depth claim on the evidence rail).
- **The 3rd application protects the integrated three-layer architecture and the hybrid-inference method** — the inventive concept that ties the closed loop together.

A competitor would have to **design around all three** patent applications **AND** replicate the four-module closed-loop architecture **AND** assemble a 39,917-chunk peer-reviewed knowledge base **AND** build the multilingual WhatsApp-first interface **AND** pass the regulator's claim-discipline gate. The incremental cost of doing all of this from scratch is materially higher than the £21–23M pre-money valuation; the rational competitor will license rather than reinvent.

## Action required — within 7 days

1. Final claim-set review by Patent Practice (in-house).
2. UKIPO online submission (priority application + filing fee).
3. Green Channel acceleration request lodged alongside priority.
4. Update this status file to "Filed" + add the application number.
5. Update the Investor Pack v3 across IM v3 + Pitch Deck v3 + Executive Summary v3 to reflect "three patent applications filed" framing.

## Where everything lives

- **Drafting substrate** — `99_Archive/Legal_and_Regulatory/Clients/agroinsights/01_Matters/AGRO-P-003_3-Layer_Architecture/`
- **Output 1 — ISF Design Assessment** (technical-disclosure substrate) — within Bioengineering / Design & Development matters
- **Output 3 — Three-Layer Architecture review** (technical-disclosure substrate) — within Bioengineering / Design & Development matters

## Inventorship gate

Per the council ratification of 2026-05-09: every advisor approach is gated by Patent Practice review pre-outreach. Until this 3rd patent is filed at UKIPO, NO external advisor is approached on (i) edge-AI architectures for IoT, (ii) microneedle ISF biosensors, (iii) bovine clinical-decision-support, or (iv) cryptographic chain-of-custody for sensor data. This is a UK / EU / US patent-law requirement — under Patents Act 1977 (s.7 and s.13), EPC Articles 60–62, and the DABUS line on AI-assisted invention, true inventorship is a question of contribution, not contract drafting.