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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-009248"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DPLS"
cik: "0000866439"
company_name: "DarkPulse, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:50:45.078191+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# DarkPulse enters patent license with UMBRA for secure networking integrated with fiber-optic sensing

## Summary
- Nonexclusive, royalty-bearing license to UMBRA's U.S. patent portfolio for critical infrastructure monitoring with DarkPulse's BOTDA sensors.
- Key UMBRA patents cover multi-perimeter firewall, Slingshot routing, AI obfuscation (10,630,505; 10,922,286; GVN family).
- Option for exclusivity carve-outs on UMBRA IP through additional royalty payments for future deployment verticals.
- Integration aims to provide real-time encrypted sensor data transmission from pipelines, borders, bridges via UMBRA's GVN platform.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-009248
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DPLS
- cik: 0000866439
- company_name: DarkPulse, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866439/000168316825009248/0001683168-25-009248-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866439/000168316825009248/darkpulse_8k.htm

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