The Invention Path — FENTON’S WAY (Fractal) + COLLEAGUE (Engine)

Audience: Patients, Readers, Partners, Funders, Patent Attorneys

The Way Forward

You’ve Seen the problem. You’ve traced the history. Now meet the Way forward.

At the heart of FENTON’S WAY are Four Mission Essential Tasks (the Fractal Four Questions):

  1. Who are you, and who are you becoming?

  2. Why now?

  3. Do we know what we’re doing?

  4. When are we leaving, where are we going, and who cares?

On the surface, they feel familiar. But here’s what’s new:

Defined with precise operational meaning.

  • Embedded in a recursive, fractal structure — so the same framework works for a patient, a physician, a hospital, or a nation.

  • Implemented with AI as FENTON’S COLLEAGUE — continuously updating in real time, beyond human cognitive limits.

Why This Matters to Funders

  • Scales across every level: patient → physician → team → system → nation.

  • Unlocks savings of $900 billion–$1.2 trillion annually in U.S. healthcare.

  • Federal programs (VA, DOD, HHS, Medicare, Medicaid) stand to save $300–$600 billion/year.

  • Pilot cost: ~$5 million — ROI measured in weeks, not years.

  • One-time national implementation: a fraction of one year’s savings.

Why This Is Patentable

This isn’t another checklist, workflow, or EHR. It’s an invention.

What It Is (public-safe):

  • A fractal, recursive, continuously updating care engine that implements FENTON’S WAY.

  • Executes METs → ISSUES → Plans/Ownership → Outputs → Feedback → Recursion.

  • Human + AI co-curation, optimized for Benefit/Cost in real time.

  • Scales across patient → physician/team → system → nation.

Patent Eligibility Highlights (plain English):

  • Novelty (§102): No known system defines and recursively updates care across scales using a MET-to-ISSUE architecture.

  • Non-obviousness (§103): Not an EHR/workflow; a logic engine integrating Benefit/Cost optimization and continuous update.

  • Technical (§101): Automatable architecture, not an abstract method of organizing human activity.

  • Enablement (§112): Prototype exists; detailed NDA brief available.

  • Inventive step: Enables curated care beyond human cognitive limits.

Next Steps

  • Access the confidential technical brief (diagrams, dataflows, prototype).

  • Request NDA Patent Brief.

  • Why this matters: No, we haven’t been doing this all along. It wasn’t here until now.

“Optimal function and quality of life at the greatest Benefit/Cost.”