Open Science & Publications
Intellectual Property
Open where it builds trust, protected where it builds a company. Kronos is deliberate about the line.
- Granted
- US 12,009,112
- Pending
- 64/128,097
The Kronos model is to publish the physics openly — so it can be checked — while protecting the proprietary engineering that turns a design into a manufacturable machine. Kronos holds a granted patent, US 12,009,112, with additional applications pending (64/128,097).
The genuinely proprietary build detail lives in the patent filings, not in the open deposits or the public engineering drawings — which are representative, not fabrication-grade.
The boundaryOpen: the reproducible physics record. Protected: the build implementation. The two are kept cleanly separate.
Common questions
What is open vs proprietary?
The reproducible physics record is open; the proprietary build implementation is protected (one granted patent, more pending). The two are kept cleanly separate.