# VerSky™ — Fact Sheet

**Version:** 1.0 · **Last updated:** May 2026

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## At a Glance

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| **Project** | VerSky™ Protocol |
| **Inventor** | Jittapol Prukpatarakul (Bangkok, Thailand) |
| **Filing date** | February 27, 2026 |
| **Filing office** | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) |
| **Filing mode** | Pro Se · Micro Entity |
| **Applications** | 19/551,620 (VerSky Protocol) · 19/551,624 (AACP) |
| **Total claims** | 40 (20 per application) |
| **License (planned)** | Apache 2.0 with patent grant for reference implementation |

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## What VerSky Is

An **open protocol for low-altitude air traffic management** — covering
drones, eVTOLs, autonomous aerial vehicles, and recreational unmanned
aircraft operating below 500 metres.

The protocol is built on seven foundational principles. The two flagship
mechanisms are:

1. **Altitude-Direction Encoding** — Each altitude band is divided into
   six hexagonal direction sectors. Aircraft at any altitude know which
   way they should be travelling without negotiation.

2. **AI Aerial Communication Protocol (AACP)** — Where altitude alone
   isn't enough (at intersections), aircraft negotiate peer-to-peer with
   trust-scored AI agents. If consensus fails, deterministic fallback
   rules resolve the conflict. Every decision is logged with hash-chain
   integrity.

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## Patent Applications

### Application No. 19/551,620 — VerSky Protocol
*Altitude-Direction Encoding Protocol for Air Traffic Management with
Hexagonal Grid and Intersection Separation*

- **Confirmation #** 6812
- **Filed** February 27, 2026, 2:02 AM ET
- **Status** Pending USPTO examination
- **Claims** 20 (3 independent + 17 dependent)

### Application No. 19/551,624 — AACP
*AI Aerial Communication Protocol with Peer-to-Peer Negotiation and
Deterministic Fallback Resolution*

- **Confirmation #** 4598
- **Filed** February 27, 2026, 3:00 AM ET
- **Status** Pending USPTO examination
- **Claims** 20 (3 independent + 17 dependent)

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## Why It Matters

ICAO's air traffic rules were authored in the 1950s for manned aircraft
cruising at flight levels using voice radio. Below 500 metres, where the
next decade of aviation will operate, those assumptions break down:
density is too high, vehicles are autonomous, communication is digital,
and there are too many actors for centralised control.

VerSky proposes a protocol layer that resolves most conflicts by
geometry rather than negotiation — and falls back to peer-to-peer AI
negotiation only at intersections. The result is a system designed for a
million-vehicle airspace from the ground up.

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## The Pro Se / AI-Authored Story

VerSky was filed entirely **Pro Se** — without a patent attorney —
using an orchestrated workflow of four AI collaborators:

- **Claude** (Anthropic) — Lead architect, refinement, claim drafting
- **GPT-5 / Codex** (OpenAI) — Adversarial review, GO/NO-GO gating
- **Kimi K2** (Moonshot) — Code generation, translation
- **Gemini** (Google) — i18n review, research

Total: **35+ rounds of internal review** before filing.

The Pro Se choice is part of the thesis: authorship bandwidth, not
technical novelty, is now the bottleneck for new aerospace standards.

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## Roadmap

- **Phase 1 — Prosecution** (2026–2028): USPTO examination, continuation
  applications, PCT filing (deadline February 27, 2027).
- **Phase 2 — Reference implementation**: Open-source SDK + simulator
  under Apache 2.0 with patent grant.
- **Phase 3 — VerSky Cloud**: Hash-chained audit log + regulator
  dashboards.
- **Phase 4 — Standards body submission**: ASTM F38, ICAO UAG.

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## Quick Quotes (attributable to Jittapol Prukpatarakul)

> "The hardest part of an open protocol isn't the protocol — it's the
> patience to publish it before the standards body asks for it."

> "Authorship bandwidth, not technical novelty, is the bottleneck for new
> aerospace standards in 2026. Pro Se with AI is how we route around it."

> "Altitude can encode direction. That single shift turns a million-drone
> airspace from a negotiation problem into a geometry problem."

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## Press Contact

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