The foundation is built.
The proof is public.

The mathematical models we call neural networks have powered AI for decades — and they’ve been remarkably successful. But they were never designed for the energy reality of today. Brain-CA started from a different question: not how do we make neural networks more efficient, but what would we build if we weren’t constrained by their assumptions at all?

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Granted US patents

2

International PCT filings

8

Peer-reviewed papers at ISCA

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Years of ISCA publication

Patent Portfolio

Foundational IP — granted and protected.

Brain-CA’s core technology is protected by a multi-layered portfolio covering the Estimator, the Cincinnati Algorithm, the Learning Fabric, and the broader cellular automata-based architecture. Protection extends across US and international markets.

United States — Granted

Granted – December 2023

US 11,847,386 B1 — The Estimator & Cincinnati Algorithm

Describes the elemental device at the heart of Brain-CA’s architecture — a transistor-level unit that predicts without arithmetic.

Granted – July 2024

US 12,050,846 B1 — The Learning System

Describes how Estimators scale into a learning system — using wave patterns to find relationships and build fast inference paths.

Granted – March 2026

US 12,572,717 B2 — Ripple Pattern Operations

Provides operational specifics of the ripple patterns — how the system propagates signals and executes inference along established paths.

United States — Published Applications

Published Application

US 2024/0362378 A1 — Universal learning fabric based on cellular automata

Published application covering the universal memory/logic grid and its application as a scalable learning architecture.

Published Application

US 2025/0201304 A1 — Artificial intelligence based on cellular automata

Continuing application extending protection of the core cellular automata-based AI architecture.

International — PCT Filings

WO 2024/178099 A1 — Universal Learning Fabric Based on Cellular Automata

International protection for the unified memory/logic grid and asynchronous communication protocols. Filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty for global market coverage.

WO 2025/136734 A1 — Artificial Intelligence Based on Cellular Automata

Global rights regarding the identification of relationships through ripple propagation and signal collisions in a cellular automata-based architecture.

Published research

Peer-reviewed and presented at ISCA — the world’s premier computer architecture conference.

Brain-CA’s architecture has been validated through rigorous peer review and presented at ISCA workshops across 2024, 2025, and 2026. Eight papers represent the scientific foundation of the technology — from the atomic device level to distributed AI architectures.

ISCA 2026

Decision Locality: A Substrate for AI Inference and Continual Learning

Establishes decision locality as the architectural substrate enabling inference and continual learning to happen in the same place, on the same hardware, without a round trip to a data center.

A Hardware-Native Bit-Serial Learner with Exact Statistical Structure

Proves that the Estimator’s bit-serial learning process is not an approximation — it carries exact statistical structure, validating the mathematical foundation of the Cincinnati Algorithm.

Convergence-Based Learning Fabrics: From Elemental Devices to Communication-Minimal Distributed AI Architectures

Traces the path from a single Estimator to a full Learning Fabric, demonstrating how convergence-based logic scales into a communication-minimal distributed architecture.

Bootstrap Discovery of Sensory Primitives for Embodied Visual Learning

Shows how the Learning Fabric can bootstrap its own sensory primitives directly from visual input, without pre-engineered feature extraction.

ISCA 2025

A Uniform, Tessellated Architecture for Energy-Efficient Learning and Inference

Proves that tessellated grid provides optimal spatial packing and communication efficiency for massively parallel, decentralized AI hardware. The foundational geometric case for the Learning Fabric.

Brain-CA: Dual-Speed, Low-Energy AI Architecture for Cognitive Learning

Demonstrates how separating fast signal propagation from slow state updates enables high-speed cognition at a fraction of standard GPU power consumption.

Brain-CA: A Cellular Automata-Inspired Architecture for Energy-Efficient CPU Design

Details the integration of the Cincinnati Algorithm into standard CPU environments to offload high-energy inference tasks to the Learning Fabric — the practical path to enterprise deployment.

ISCA 2024

Casting Off the Old Guard: Achieving Superior A.I. Performance through Simplification

Provides the theoretical framework for moving beyond the Von Neumann bottleneck — replacing power-hungry floating-point arithmetic with bit-level logic. The philosophical and scientific case for Teleomorphic Computing.