Firm Files 15 Patents for AI Robot Safety Standard
Pennsylvania-based public benefit corporation OpenCxMS Technologies has filed 15 patents in 13 days to establish what it calls the first hardware safety standard for AI-controlled robots. The filings include 134 patent claims covering software governance, hardware enforcement, and commercial infrastructure. The company states this is the most comprehensive AI robot safety portfolio filed by a single inventor.
- The company's founder, Robert S. Briggs II, is the sole inventor listed on all 134 patent claims and has a background in software engineering and systems architecture. - The core of the proposed standard is a "Standardized Autonomous Safety Module" (SASM), a physical processor that sits between the AI and the robot's hardware and can cut power to the AI in under 10 milliseconds without software commands. - This hardware-based approach is designed to be fundamentally different from existing safety systems, which the founder describes as "software watching software." - OpenCxMS Technologies was established as a Public Benefit Corporation and states it will not accept venture capital funding to prevent profit motives from compromising its safety mission. - The company is timing its technology release to coincide with the full implementation of the EU AI Act, which becomes legally binding on August 2, 2026, and requires auditable decision records and human oversight for high-risk AI systems. - A key feature of the system is its ability to record all AI decisions in human-readable Markdown files, which is intended to meet the EU's transparency and audit requirements. - The patents also cover a "Manufacturer Interface Module" (MIM), designed to act as a universal adapter, similar to a PCIe slot, allowing the standardized safety brain to connect to any robot body.
