MUMBAI, India, Aug. 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641090609 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on July 24, 2026, for A System And Method For Hardware-Gated Consent In Retrieval-Augmented Generation Using Secure Peripheral.
Inventors include Subramaniyaswamy V; and Abhijai S.
The application for the patent was published on July 31, 2026, under issue no. 31/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a system (100) and method for hardware-gated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using a trusted peripheral configured for physically acknowledged retrieval authorization, per-query cryptographic key release, and tamper-evident audit generation during retrieval of encrypted information. The system (100) comprises a host subsystem (102) having a processor (104), a memory (106), a database (108), and a communication interface (110), and a trusted peripheral device (112) including a microcontroller (114), a display (116), a confirmation control (118), a secure element (120), and a secure flash memory (122). The host subsystem (102) determines whether a retrieval query requires consent-gated retrieval, generates a consent request, and temporarily suspends decryption. The trusted peripheral device (112) generates and presents a consent clause, receives physical user acknowledgement, verifies the request, derives and releases a per-query decryption key, and generates a cryptographically signed consent receipt.
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