PM_DECABS
Patent pending. U.S. App. No. 19/542,902

Every change to authoritative data has to earn its way in.

PM_DECABS is a deterministic mutation boundary. Writes to governed state are inhibited by default. A change is permitted only inside a bounded mutation epoch, staged in a shadow region, validated against a reference state hash, then committed atomically and recorded in a tamper-evident log. If anything fails, the boundary stays closed.

Patent pendingU.S. Utility Application No. 19/542,902
ArchitectureMutation epoch, shadow staging, atomic commit, hash-chained audit
Veteran-ownedOperated by a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
Research baseFounder is a Florida International University DBA candidate
Based inDoral, Florida (Greater Miami)
The mechanism

Locked by default. Opened only under control.

PM_DECABS treats the governed memory region like a vault door: closed unless a specific, validated sequence opens it for a bounded window.

01
Open epoch
A bounded mutation window opens on a valid trigger. Outside an epoch, every write is denied.
02
Stage in shadow
Candidate changes are written to a shadow region, distinct from live state.
03
Validate
A reference state hash is checked against the observed state before anything is applied.
04
Commit atomically
On success, the change activates atomically, then the boundary reverts to closed. Every step is recorded.
Why it matters

Accountability for every state change.

Fail-closed by default

If no epoch is open, validation fails, or the process is interrupted, state reverts to write-inhibited. Nothing slips through.

Tamper-evident record

Each change is recorded in an append-only, hash-chained audit trail, so what changed and under whose authority is reconstructable.

Deterministic replay

In replay mode, live external retrieval is suppressed and state is reconstructed only from stored, schema-defined data.

In your browser

Open the vault, stage a change, then try to cheat it.

This is an in-browser illustration of the documented epoch, shadow, validate, and commit logic, using the Web Crypto API for hashing. It runs entirely on this page and is not the production service.

GOVERNED STATE: balance=100 | boundary: LOCKED (write-inhibited)
Audit log (append-only):
Try committing without an open epoch, or tamper after validating, to see the boundary stay closed.

Illustration only. It omits production controls such as the durable nonce registry, KMS-backed signing, and infrastructure-level isolation.

Provenance

What is verifiable today.

Stated without embellishment.

Patent status
U.S. utility application pending. Application No. 19/542,902. A patent has not been granted; "patent pending" denotes a filed application only.
Architecture
Mutation epoch, shadow staging, reference-hash validation, atomic commit, append-only hash-chained audit, deterministic replay, as described in the application.
Ownership
Intellectual property held by Deterministic Governance LLC; operated under license by FORGE LINK LLC (SDVOSB).
Founder
U.S. Marine Corps veteran; Doctor of Business Administration candidate, Florida International University.
The family

Part of a layered governance stack.

Three standalone patent-pending systems, each enforcing a different boundary, all under Deterministic Governance LLC.

Contact

Talk to the team.

For technical evaluation, licensing, or pilot inquiries.

ops@deterministicgovernance.com