Mr. Alan Guibord reports

INTEGRATED QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES FILES PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATION FOR MASQ, AUTONOMOUS AI AGENT GOVERNANCE TECHNOLOGY

Integrated Cyber Solutions Inc., doing business as Integrated Quantum Technologies, has filed a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering its MASQ (machine action security quotient) technology.

The patent application, titled "Infrastructure-Layer Mediation System and Method for Governing Autonomous AI Agent Actions," contains more than 55 patent claims and represents the company's second major intellectual property filing following its previously announced provisional patent application covering its VEIL privacy-preserving artificial intelligence technology.

As enterprises increasingly deploy autonomous AI agents capable of accessing enterprise systems, invoking external tools, executing code and initiating financial transactions, management believes a new infrastructure layer will be required to govern, monitor and secure machine actions independently of the underlying AI model.

MASQ is being developed as an infrastructure-layer governance platform designed to evaluate, authorize and audit autonomous AI agent actions before they are executed. Rather than relying solely on application-level controls or the behaviour of an underlying AI model, the technology is intended to provide policy enforcement, identity verification, secure interactions with external tools and enterprise systems, execution governance, and tamper-evident audit capabilities across enterprise AI environments.

The provisional patent application contains more than 55 claims covering technologies related to autonomous AI agent governance, including infrastructure-layer policy enforcement, secure tool interactions, agent identity and delegation, representation isolation, transaction governance, and action-level security scoring. Management believes these innovations address an emerging need for enterprise infrastructure as AI agents become increasingly capable of operating independently across enterprise systems.

"The industry has made tremendous progress in building increasingly capable AI agents, but governance and security infrastructure has not evolved at the same pace," said Jeremy Samuelson, chief technology officer and executive vice-president of AI and innovation at Integrated Quantum Technologies. "We believe enterprises will increasingly require infrastructure that can govern autonomous AI actions independently of the underlying AI model. MASQ is designed to help establish that trusted execution layer by introducing policy enforcement, identity verification and auditable controls around AI agent operations."

The company believes autonomous AI agents represent one of the fastest-growing segments of enterprise AI. As these systems become increasingly capable of accessing enterprise applications, utilizing external tools and executing business processes, management believes governance, security and operational oversight will become foundational requirements for enterprise adoption.

The filing of the MASQ provisional patent application reflects the company's strategy of expanding its intellectual property portfolio while developing foundational technologies for enterprise AI infrastructure. Development of MASQ is expected to continue as part of the company's broader AI infrastructure platform road map.

About Integrated Quantum Technologies Inc.

Integrated Quantum is building quantum-ready infrastructure to help secure and scale artificial intelligence. The company's product offerings include the AIQu platform, which supports its long-term strategy for privacy-preserving and resilient AI systems and VEIL, its first commercial product designed to protect sensitive AI data and workflows in enterprise environments. IQT's proprietary technologies address emerging postquantum security risks, expanding compute demands and the increasing complexity of deploying AI at scale. These innovations are complemented by IQT's managed services offering and the company's SecureGuard360 cybersecurity platform for end-to-end AI security and monitoring.

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