Energy
Sila Nanotechnologies and Georgia Tech Research Corporation accuse three Carbon One entities of infringing four silicon-anode patents with the imported CI-SC(1800) and CI-SC(2000) products.
Energy
NextNRG (NXXT) filed an 8-K disclosing a Stock Purchase Agreement under which CEO and Executive Chairman Michael Farkas took 260,000 shares in exchange for cancelling a March 2024 promissory note, and the note was terminated the same day.
Energy
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published its reasons for denying a 2021 petition that sought a formal investigation into alleged speed-control defects across roughly 6 million Kia and Hyundai vehicles.
Energy
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has published the final environmental impact statement for Black Canyon Hydro's proposed Seminoe Pumped Storage Project, a 972-megawatt storage facility on the North Platte River.
Energy
This week's published applications concentrate on energy-storage pack architecture, thermal containment, and battery diagnostics — a cluster that signals where the cell maker is putting its system-level engineering.
Energy
Two of the automaker's U.S. patent applications published this week claim lithium-manganese-iron-phosphate and doped lithium-manganese-phosphate cathode materials — an ~18-month-old signal that Toyota's battery R&D is reaching into the lower-cost LFP-family chemistry, not only the solid-state work it is known for.
Energy
An automaker that buys its cells issued a cluster of U.S. patents on traction-battery pack trays, contactor mounting, multi-array state estimation and charge-port cooling — mapping enforceable coverage over how a bought-in cell becomes an integrated, vehicle-grade pack.
Energy
Eight U.S. patent applications published in a single week from the Chinese cell maker cluster on case architecture, electrical-compartment separation, thermal control and sensing — an ~18-month-old look at R&D aimed at the pack as a system rather than the chemistry inside it.
Energy
Twenty-seven issued U.S. patents in a single week skew away from raw cell chemistry and toward battery-management algorithms, fault detection, and roll-to-roll line equipment — mapping enforceable coverage over how cells are watched and built, not just what is inside them.
Energy
Three of the same day's applications build fire-extinguishing plumbing directly into the energy-storage enclosure — pointing to where the cell maker is spending R&D as stationary storage scales and the failure mode moves from the car to the warehouse.
Energy
Twelve issued patents in a single week reach across the world's largest cell maker's stack — an LMFP cathode material, a solid-electrolyte membrane, electrode and end-cover structures, and production-line equipment — mapping enforceable coverage layer by layer.
Energy
A cluster of Toyota applications published the same day pairs sulfide solid-electrolyte chemistry with bipolar-electrode assembly methods — pointing to where the automaker is spending battery R&D and how it intends to build it.
Energy
In the week's issued patents, LG Energy Solution's grants cluster on cell mechanics, manufacturing and pack containment rather than chemistry — mapping the part of the cell business that is hardest for a rival to design around.
Energy
A patent application published in the week ending 20 April 2026 has GM modeling degradation in a lithium-manganese-rich cell — one of several next-generation chemistries showing up across its recent published filings.
Energy
Three patents issued to SK On in the week ending 20 April 2026 cover bus-bar welds and pouch sealing — module-assembly engineering that maps a large part of where the cell maker holds enforceable coverage.
Energy
A patent application published in the week ending 27 April 2026 has Graphenix Development moving its deposited-silicon anode from liquid-electrolyte cells toward solid-state ones — a direction visible across its recent published filings.
Energy
A patent issued to Group14 Technologies in the week ending 27 April 2026 covers a manufacturing process for silicon-carbon composite anode material — one more record in a granted footprint built almost entirely around the same material problem.
Energy
A week of published U.S. applications shows the automaker spending R&D on prismatic-cell thermal hardware, cold-start coolant routing, and soft-short detection. Where the filings point.
Energy
Nearly thirty issued U.S. patents span flame control, extinguishing hardware, gas monitoring, electrode coating, and the inspection lines behind them. The coverage, by number.
Energy
A week of published U.S. applications shows the automaker spending R&D on safety-valve and thermal-insulation hardware alongside a resin-and-metal-foil electrode architecture. Where the filings point.
Energy
A batch of issued U.S. patents from the world's largest cell maker spans separator chemistry, weld-free current collectors, gas detection, and vehicle assembly. Here is the footprint, by number.
Energy
A week of published applications from Ford puts a battery cell in the spare-wheel well and inductive charging into the spare tire — small filings that signal an interest in distributed, vehicle-integrated energy.
Energy
A single day of issued patents to Honda Motor concentrates on thermal management, charge/discharge control, and electricity-storage electrodes — the operating-condition problems that govern a pack's working life.
Energy
A week of patent applications from Hyundai Motor pairs a sulfide solid-state cathode with a run of battery-diagnosis and cell-balancing filings — a portrait of where the carmaker is spending its storage R&D.
