USPTO Provisional Application
KEUC (Key Exchange Under Ciphertext)
- Application
- 63/920,509
- USPTO receipt date
- November 19, 2025
Post-quantum and resilient cryptography
Our Mission
Advanced Technology With a Public Purpose.
We believe powerful technology should strengthen communities, improve resilience, and earn trust through responsible design. Our work explores how secure AI, post-quantum cybersecurity, privacy-first systems, and public-safety resilience technology can serve a safer future.
Guiding Principles
How We Build
Three principles shape every initiative we pursue.
Trustworthy by Design
Human oversight, auditability, evidence grounding, and responsible deployment.
Resilient by Purpose
Technology designed for disruption, uncertainty, and critical operating conditions.
Private by Default
Privacy and control treated as architectural principles, not afterthoughts.
Our Approach
Research That Must Earn Trust.
Black Diamond approaches emerging technology with disciplined validation — identifying the need, defining the risk, designing the system, testing the assumptions, documenting limitations, and only then describing what the work can support.
- 01
Mission Need
Define the public-benefit problem and the conditions the work must serve.
- 02
System Design
Architect the system around trust, resilience, privacy, and human authorization.
- 03
Safety & Security Review
Evaluate risk, adversarial exposure, and failure modes before validation.
- 04
Controlled Validation
Test assumptions under controlled conditions and document limitations.
- 05
Public-Benefit Translation
Describe only what the work can support, grounded in evidence.
Leadership
The People Behind the Work
Black Diamond Project Corp is guided by researchers committed to disciplined, evidence-grounded innovation in service of the public benefit.
Simon Peter Carreras
Founder / Lead Security Researcher
Simon Peter Carreras founded Black Diamond Project Corp to advance public-benefit technology at the intersection of secure AI, cybersecurity research, secure systems, IEEE-aligned technical collaboration, and resilient public-safety technology. He guides the foundation's research direction and is the named inventor on four USPTO-received provisional patent applications.
- Named inventor on four USPTO provisional patent applications
- National Cyber League team: No. 1 in cryptography among 4,214 teams nationwide
- National Cyber League team: No. 12 overall in the Fall 2025 competition
- IEEE participant
- Secure AI and cybersecurity research leadership
- Public-benefit technology founder
Nazila Safavi, Ph.D.
Co-Founder
Dr. Nazila Safavi is an engineering, computer science and information technology educator and professional whose work includes digital systems, information technology, cybersecurity, telecommunications, blockchain, AI, computer-based workflows, and system reliability.
- Ph.D. in Information Technology & Management
- M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering & Management, Southern Methodist University
- B.S. in Computer Science, Oxford Brookes University
- IEEE Senior Member
- IEEE Foothill Section CS and Local Blockchain Group Chair
- DeVry University-SoCal IEEE Student Branch leadership
- ACM affiliate
Intellectual Property
A Filed Research Portfolio
Founder Simon Peter Carreras is the named inventor on four provisional utility applications received by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
USPTO Provisional Application
AI-QEC (AI Quantum Error Correction)
- Application
- 63/921,087
- USPTO receipt date
- November 19, 2025
Artificial intelligence and quantum error correction
USPTO Provisional Application
Parallel Multi-Session Processing
- Application
- 63/921,091
- USPTO receipt date
- November 19, 2025
Secure and resilient systems
USPTO Provisional Application
Single-Use, Human-Gated Artificial Intelligence System for Memory-Based Grief Resolution Interactions
- Application
- 63/949,083
- USPTO receipt date
- December 26, 2025
Human-gated artificial intelligence
These records are USPTO electronic acknowledgement receipts for provisional applications under 35 U.S.C. 111(b). Provisional applications establish filing dates and are not examined or issued patents.
A public-benefit purpose
A private foundation advancing privacy-first, secure and resilient technology for high-trust environments. Our research focuses on secure and responsible AI, post-quantum cybersecurity, privacy-first systems, and public-safety resilience — fields where responsible design and rigorous validation matter most.
Questions about partnership or collaboration? Contact us at support@bdproj.org.