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USPTO — Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions

Name: Calibrated Authority rating — USPTO — Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions
Item: USPTO — Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions — public generative-AI policy
Rating: 8
Author: Chris Huber Reitz

8/12Calibrated Authority

“only a natural person can be an inventor, so AI cannot be”— Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions, 89 FR 10043 (quoting Thaler v. Vidal) · source ↗

Traceability & inspectability

Human authorship & accountability

Disclosure & labeling

Synthetic-identity / fabrication prohibition

Human validation in loop

Evidential-trust emphasis

Posture Balanced Boundary fit · fits Trust-logic Evidential Updated 2026-07-19 · rev 1

Source policy: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/02/13/2024-02623/inventorship-guidance-for-ai-assisted-inventions

Machine record: /institutions/uspto.json

Cite this

Reitz, C.H. (2026). The Calibrated Authority Index — USPTO — Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions. https://calibrated-authority.chrishuberreitz.com/institutions/uspto Quote: “only a natural person can be an inventor, so AI cannot be” Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/02/13/2024-02623/inventorship-guidance-for-ai-assisted-inventions

Index Methodology Manifest JSON atom CC-BY-4.0 · v2026-06-22 · Chris Huber Reitz