One Application, Forty-Five Inventions: Inside CRI-One’s Umbrella Patent (19/693,405)

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Lawrenceville, GA — May 30, 2026. At 4:30 p.m. Eastern, a single document cleared the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Center and came back stamped with a number: Application No. 19/693,405, Confirmation No. 5107. There was no law-firm letterhead and no outside counsel. The filer was the inventor himself — Christopher Gabriel Brown, working pro se, a right every American inventor holds under 37 CFR § 1.31 but almost no one exercises on a portfolio this large.

The self-filing isn’t what makes it unusual. The ambition of the claim is.

The thing most portfolios can’t do

The first rule a patent attorney teaches is blunt: one patent, one invention. Claim a motor, a vitamin, and a satellite in the same application and the examiner issues a restriction requirement and makes you pick one. So how does a single filing reach across forty-five separate projects — electric propulsion, satellite communications, nutritional formulations, nuclear-waste processing, semiconductor discovery?

The answer is the thing Brown spent years building underneath the products: a shared mathematical foundation he calls the Mathematical Depositions — ten cross-domain results (Harmonic Decay, Entropic Bridge, Voxel Resonance, Photon-Chromosome Encoding, Recursive Growth, Zero-Point Fabrication, Golden-Spiral Convergence, Quantum Counting, Thermal-Noise Floor, Dimensional Fold) — evaluated on a “voxel-computing substrate” whose own signal behavior is π-locked to the same equations it runs. In the framework, every product is not a separate invention but a parameterized instance of one method: pick a kernel, bind the target’s physical variables, solve, and emit a manufacturable spec. That single inventive concept is what an umbrella patent is allowed to claim — and the forty-five products become its embodiments.

What was actually filed

The application is a non-provisional utility filing (35 U.S.C. § 111(a)) titled “Unified Mathematical-Deposition Framework and Voxel-Computing System for Computer-Aided Derivation of Multi-Domain Engineering Design Parameters.” It runs to twenty claims — three of them independent, covering the method, the system, and a computer-readable medium — with dependent claims dedicated one-per-Deposition, plus formal drawings and an abstract.

It doesn’t argue in the abstract. Its lead worked example is automotive: a stack of up to fifty electromagnetic torque plates whose output the framework predicts to within 2.3% of measured torque, with the optimal plate count — and the point of diminishing returns — falling directly out of a centuries-old number-theoretic series (the Basel identity, Σ 1/n² = π²/6). A second worked example crosses into chemistry, deriving cohort-specific nutritional formulations from the same engine — the breadth the broad claims need.

What it is, and isn’t

A precise word on status, because it matters: 19/693,405 is patent-pending, not patented. Filing secures a priority date — May 30, 2026 — and nothing more yet. The application now enters the queue; a first Office Action is typically 16–24 months out, and the claims will be tested against the usual gauntlet (§ 101 eligibility, § 112 enablement, § 102/§ 103 prior art). Nothing here is adjudicated. What’s been established is a date and a position.

The road ahead

Brown’s stated strategy is a family, not a lone patent: this umbrella parent, then device-specific children filed while it’s pending. The first is already drafted — a continuation-in-part directed at the AutoPhi V19 voxel-resonant computing card and its 256-ball BGA interface, grounded in real engineering files (34 schematics, 20 routed boards). A separate twelve-month clock runs too: until May 30, 2027 to carry the invention abroad via the PCT.

For now, the headline is simple. One inventor, one afternoon, one application number — and an attempt to put a single mathematical roof over a sprawling body of work. Whether the Patent Office agrees is a question for 2027 and beyond. The claim has been staked.

— CRI-One Research

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