The foundational patents for AI native video
Video was built to be played, not understood. ION’s estate protects the infrastructure that turns sealed video files into programmable, governable, verifiable data, the layer AI builds on. Five families. Six granted US patents. A priority date of 2007. This is what we license.
The moment video becomes data
The largest data type on earth
Around 82% of internet traffic is now video — the richest record of human knowledge ever assembled, and almost none of it is usable by intelligent systems.
The finished file is disappearing
AI agents now assemble video on demand, from fragments. Increasingly there is no complete file left to license, govern or check.
Safety & provenance becoming law
Deepfakes, child safety and AI-generated disinformation are pushing governments worldwide to legislate video provenance and online safety.
ION’s estate is the infrastructure for exactly this moment: it makes video addressable, governable, verifiable and safe at the level of the individual sample.
One estate. Five layers. The full lifecycle of video.
Virtual Video Containers
Separate a video’s structure from its binary samples, making sample-level addressing possible, without duplicating the original asset.
Immutable Distributed Ledger
A permanent, consensus-validated record of every content transaction, anchoring provenance and ownership beneath the stack.
The Right to Resolve
Governs who can assemble content, and under what conditions, enforced at the sample level at the moment of execution. Not DRM.
The Right to Identify
Cryptographically proves the identity of every sample, binding verified identity to the underlying bytes so it holds as generative AI advances.
The Right to Classify
Binds a content-safety classification to every sample and enforces it the instant a video is assembled. Prevention, not detection.
The six granted patents (2007 priority) establish layers one and two across 14 jurisdictions. The three 2026 provisional filings extend the same architecture into governance, authentication and safety. These are foundational architecture patents, any organisation building video virtualisation infrastructure at scale will meet this estate.
What the estate makes possible.
A film that travels like an email
Virtualising a rendered video shrinks its container to roughly 100 KB — for a feature-length film. The footage itself never moves.
Composed for one person, instantly
Nothing is rendered to a file, so an experience can be composed around a single viewer at the moment they press play.
AI that works with real footage
ION exposes video as data, so intelligent systems can read, search and assemble it directly — not trapped inside rendered files.
Proof that a video is real
Every sample carries a cryptographic identity, so authentic footage is verifiable and synthetic content exposed.
Unsafe content that never assembles
Safety is checked at assembly, sample by sample. If a fragment breaches policy, the video simply does not resolve.
One source, every jurisdiction
The same master is assembled under different safety regimes per territory, governed by configurable policy.
Six granted US patents.
US 8,893,203
US 9,516,392
US 9,544,657
US 9,918,134
US 9,955,222
US 10,721,507
Granted across 14 jurisdictions, including the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, South Korea, China and Hong Kong. Earliest effective filing date 17 August 2007.
Third-party verified.
US$1.02B → US$1.76B
Independent valuation of the granted portfolio, Elevate, April 2026. Over 30× the market cap.
Alder IP
Validity, novelty and freedom-to-operate opinions, all positive, with zero prior-art challenges.
Built on ISO/IEC MP4
The container and assembly layer sits on the MP4 standard the entire industry already ships.
A different layer entirely.
What ION is not
- A CDN or delivery layer
- A transcoding service
- A MAM or asset-management system
- A synthetic video generator
What ION is
- A data infrastructure layer for programmable video
- A composition primitive from one protected master
- A governance architecture enforced at runtime
- A trust architecture that authenticates & classifies every sample
- The foundational layer for Video Superintelligence™
Patents, white papers & supporting documentation.
The full suite of ION’s intellectual property documentation, made available in accordance with the Company’s continuous-disclosure obligations under ASX Listing Rule 3.1, giving shareholders, partners and prospective licensees complete and transparent access to the technical and legal foundations of ION’s Video Superintelligence™ technology.
Tokenised Virtual Video Delivery · Abstract
PDF · Patent spec
Tokenised Virtual Video Delivery · Claims
PDF · Patent spec
Tokenised Virtual Video Delivery · Drawings
PDF · Patent spec
Tokenised Virtual Video Delivery · Specification
PDF · Patent spec
Policy-Gated Authentication, 2026904970 · Abstract
PDF · Patent spec
Policy-Gated Authentication, 2026904970 · Claims
PDF · Patent spec
Policy-Gated Authentication, 2026904970 · Drawings
PDF · Patent spec
Policy-Gated Authentication, 2026904970 · Specification
PDF · Patent spec
Commercialisation Report · Existing Patents
PDF · Alder IP
Novelty Search · Tokenised Virtual Video Delivery
PDF · Alder IP
Novelty Search · Annexure A
PDF · Alder IP
Freedom to Operate · Tokenised Virtual Video Delivery
PDF · Alder IP
Freedom to Operate · Tokenised, Annexure B
PDF · Alder IP
Freedom to Operate · Non-Destructive Virtualisation
PDF · Alder IP
Freedom to Operate · Non-Destructive, Annexure B
PDF · Alder IP
ION Technical Whitepaper
PDF · Technical
Introduction to ION
PDF · Technical
Shareholder Update · Patent Family 5, the Right to Classify
PDF · Pending upload
Right to Classify, 2026905599 · Specification & References
PDF · Pending upload
Build on the foundational patents for AI-native video
Six granted US patents and three 2026 filings protect how video is virtualised, recorded, governed, authenticated and made safe. Explore how the estate applies to your infrastructure, and where ION fits.