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AetherScale™
Platelet-Based Distributed Sensor Architecture — thermal and load event detection across surfaces and enclosures.
AetherScale is the “skin layer” of the Ascend Dynamix ecosystem: a distributed sensing fabric designed to convert
local physical changes into coherent, higher-level environmental awareness.
At a Glance
Filing: U.S. Provisional (Application No. 63/926,754) |
Filed: November 27, 2025 |
Inventor: Gareth Karpel
- What it is: A platelet mesh of sensing units that capture local thermal and load signals.
- What it outputs: Spatial “event-fields” (aggregated interpretations) rather than raw sensor spam.
- What it enables: Resilient, scalable sensing across irregular surfaces with cooperative inference.
Why AetherScale Exists
Most sensing systems are centralized arrays: a few sensors feed a single processor, creating bottlenecks,
single points of failure, and low adaptability across large or irregular environments. Thermal, pressure,
and structural awareness are often fragmented into separate subsystems, and “fusion” becomes expensive,
inconsistent, or slow.
AetherScale is designed to replace that pattern with distributed, self-consistent sensing — where local units
can observe, interpret, and cooperate to produce a coherent map of what is happening across a surface.
What AetherScale Is
AetherScale is a platelet-based sensing architecture. Instead of one “big sensor,” a surface is instrumented
with many small platelets — each capable of sampling, basic inference, and mesh participation.
Core Concept
- Platelets: small sensing units that capture thermal and/or load signals locally.
- Local interpretation: each platelet can summarize what it sees (not just forward raw readings).
- Mesh cooperation: platelets share lightweight state to form a consistent view across the surface.
- Event-fields: aggregated surface-level “what is happening” output used by higher layers.
Core Innovations
1) Distributed Sensing Without Central Bottlenecks
Platelets reduce reliance on a single processor interpreting a monolithic dataset. The architecture scales by
adding platelets, not by increasing centralized complexity.
2) Software-Defined Platelets
Platelets can be implemented in software-only, hardware-only, or hybrid forms — enabling deployment flexibility
from embedded systems to robotics to secure enclosures.
3) Cooperative Spatial Interpretation
The system is designed to produce consistent, spatially meaningful outputs (event-fields) rather than disjoint
sensor readings that require heavy post-processing.
4) Modal Fusion Readiness
AetherScale is structured to support multi-modal inputs (e.g., thermal + load) in a unified surface model,
enabling richer interpretation without forcing separate pipelines.
Example Use Cases
- Secure enclosures: detect thermal and load anomalies consistent with tampering or intrusion attempts.
- Industrial surfaces: distributed hot-spot and load-shift awareness without centralized sensor bottlenecks.
- Robotics / mobility: surface-level environmental sensing as a stable input for higher control layers.
- Ambient awareness: scalable sensing for rooms, walls, floors, and irregular structures.
How It Fits the Ecosystem
AetherScale integrates with Arachnet™ (distributed sensing & resonance mesh) and AetherGuard™ BioCore as a physical
awareness layer — converting real-world conditions into trustworthy signals that higher layers can interpret.
IP & Disclosure Note
This page is a public executive summary intended to describe the technology at a high level.
It does not disclose filing text, claims, or implementation details. Additional materials may be made
available for diligence and review upon request.