API License Agreement

Scope. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the API solely for the purposes permitted by your Subscription tier and these terms.

Permitted Uses. You may:

• Submit battery cycling data to the API and receive degradation predictions;
• Integrate API calls into your own internal tools, dashboards, and applications;
• Display Outputs to end users of your applications, provided those end users are employees, contractors, or customers of your organization;
• Use Outputs in internal reports, analyses, and engineering decisions;
• Cache API responses for up to 24 hours to reduce redundant calls.

Prohibited Uses. You may not:

• Resell, redistribute, or sublicense raw API access or API Keys;
• Offer a competing battery prediction API that wraps or proxies our API;
• Use the API to build, train, calibrate, or validate a competing degradation model;
• Systematically query the API across a wide parameter space to reconstruct or approximate the Model’s behavior (model extraction);
• Share API Keys publicly (e.g., in client-side code, public repositories, or documentation);
• Exceed the rate limits and call quotas of your Subscription tier without authorization;
• Use the API for benchmarking against competing products without our prior written consent.

Issuance. Upon subscribing, we issue you one or more API Keys, each uniquely associated with your Account.

Security. You are responsible for keeping your API Keys secure. Store them in environment variables or secure secret managers, never in source code; never commit to version control; never embed in client-side applications; rotate immediately if compromise is suspected.

Accountability. All API calls made with your keys are attributed to your Account. You are responsible for all usage and charges incurred under your keys, whether authorized by you or not.

Revocation. We may revoke API Keys at any time if we detect abuse, security compromise, or violation of this Agreement.

Your Subscription tier determines your monthly call quota and rate limits. Free trial accounts include 50 simulations per month. Starter and Professional tiers include 2,500 and 10,000 simulations per month respectively. Enterprise terms are negotiated separately. Exceeding your quota may result in throttling or temporary suspension.

Your Data. Cycling data and calibration inputs you submit to the API remain your property. We process them solely to compute the requested predictions and do not retain inputs after the response is returned. We do not pool customer data to improve the model for other customers.

Outputs. Predictions, mode decompositions, and uncertainty bands returned by the API are licensed to you under this Agreement for the permitted uses described in Section 1.

The API, the underlying battery degradation model, all associated software, and any improvements remain the exclusive property of Scale Prognostics LLC. This Agreement does not transfer any ownership interest. Patent pending.

The API is provided “as-is” without warranties of any kind. While we make reasonable efforts to ensure accuracy, predictions are computational forecasts based on the physics model and the inputs you provide. Scale Prognostics LLC is not liable for decisions made on the basis of API outputs. Maximum liability is limited to fees paid in the prior 12 months.

Either party may terminate this Agreement with notice. Upon termination, your right to access the API ceases immediately. Sections governing IP, confidentiality, and liability survive termination.

Bayh-Dole Act compliance (35 USC 200–212; 37 CFR 401): Scale Prognostics LLC acknowledges that if any portion of the underlying invention is or becomes subject to a federal funding agreement (SBIR/STTR award, cooperative agreement, or other), the company will (a) disclose subject inventions to the funding agency via iEdison within 2 months of conception or first actual reduction to practice, (b) elect to retain title within 2 years of disclosure, and (c) comply with all reporting obligations under 37 CFR 401.5–401.14.

Government Use License (35 USC 202(c)(4)): For any subject invention developed in whole or in part under federal funding, Scale Prognostics LLC grants the United States Government a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to practice the invention or have it practiced on behalf of the United States for federal-government purposes. This license attaches automatically by operation of law and is reaffirmed here.

March-in rights (35 USC 203): Scale Prognostics LLC acknowledges the federal agency's right to require, in exceptional circumstances enumerated in 35 USC 203(a), that the company grant a nonexclusive license on reasonable terms to a responsible applicant — including for public-health, safety, and national-security needs not otherwise being met.

SBIR data rights (FAR 52.227-20): For Scale Prognostics technical data and computer software first produced under an SBIR/STTR funding agreement, the SBIR data-protection period (currently 20 years from award per the 2018 amendments) applies, restricting federal use and disclosure for that period, subject to the Government Use License above.

These provisions are operative by statute regardless of inclusion in this Agreement; they are recited here for transparency to federal customers and grant-funded research collaborators. Questions: jason@scaleprognostics.com.

Questions about this Agreement: support@scaleprognostics.com. Enterprise inquiries: jason@scaleprognostics.com.