Energy IP · Lead record
Claim 1 requires a second case, a space, and an agent that fills it. Everything the coverage is actually known for — the terrace, the seam, the named agent — sits in dependents.
Energy IP
Claim 1 of a July 16 application covers a composition — a PTC polythiophene polymer plus 10 to 300 nm porous carbon — and nothing else. The electrode and the cell arrive only in the dependent and later independent claims.
Energy IP
A pending Contemporary Amperex application claims charging a cell before sodium reduces at the negative electrode, so residual water is electrolyzed away first. A read of the independent claims — including the word claim 1 never uses.
Energy IP
A pending Fluence application claims a storage system that fingerprints a failing inverter by measuring current and voltage on both sides of the power conversion system. A claim-by-claim read of the scope.
Climate & Energy
A cylindrical-cell patent granted June 30 reads like an energy-density story, but claim 1's teeth are in a single cap that both welds to the tab and severs itself when it vents. Here is the scope.
Energy IP
A cluster of pending LG Energy Solution applications published the same day is directed to thermal-runaway mitigation at the pack and module level — coolant rerouted from cooling to spray, a venting case with an inflatable blocking member, and per-cell gas passages. They are published applications, not granted patents, classified across H01M 50/x enclosure and H01M 10/6xx thermal-management subclasses.
Energy IP
A patent issued June 23, 2026 to LG Energy Solution claims a battery module whose bus-bar frame carries a jig support that pushes back against the welding jig as it presses an electrode lead. The granted claims are directed to module geometry in CPC H01M 50/516 and B60L 50/64, not to cell chemistry.
Energy IP
Solid-state battery patents replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid one — and the most aggressive of them remove the anode entirely. Here is what the records describe, read through a granted anode-free patent.
Energy IP
A grid-forming inverter sets the grid's voltage and frequency rather than following them. Here is what that means, read through a granted patent's independent claim and the classification that places it.
Energy IP
Inverters, rectifiers, and DC-DC converters are classified in CPC class H02M. Here is what the class title covers, how H02M 7/00 frames AC-DC conversion, and how an EV-charger patent's classification line reads.
Energy IP
Patents on electric power networks, grid distribution, and energy storage management are classified in CPC class H02J. Here is what the class title covers and how its AC-mains and parallel-source subgroups frame grid-integration filings.
Energy IP
Battery and electrochemical-cell patents are classified in CPC class H01M. Here is what the class title covers, how its subclasses split chemistry from construction, and how to read a real battery patent's classification line.
Energy
FERC's Office of Energy Projects has released the final environmental impact statement for Black Canyon Hydro's proposed 972-megawatt Seminoe Pumped Storage Project at Reclamation's Seminoe Reservoir, a docket prepared with eight cooperating federal, state, and local agencies.
Energy
FERC has accepted PacifiCorp's exemption-from-licensing application for the Ashton Hydroelectric Project on Idaho's Henry's Fork and declared the docket ready for environmental analysis, opening a comment window that closes August 14, 2026.
Energy IP
A published Samsung SDI application is directed to a high-voltage battery split into two series strings, each fed by its own DC/DC converter and watched by its own cell-supervision loop. It is a pending application, not a granted patent, classified in the power-architecture branch H02J rather than the cell-chemistry classes that dominate the rest of the drop.
Energy
Oncor Electric Delivery filed rate changes to its tariff for transmission service to, from, and over certain interconnections, effective June 1, 2026, under Section 35.28(e) (Docket NJ26-8-000).
Energy
The Commission withdrew its 2021 notice of inquiry and terminated the rulemaking on whether to revise the demand-response opt-out for aggregators of retail customers in RTO and ISO markets (Docket RM21-14-000).
Energy
Confirming the effective date of Order No. 915 over a coalition's rehearing request, FERC reaffirmed the removal of the rule that had paused construction authorizations for gas infrastructure pending rehearing (Docket RM25-9-000).
Energy
A Chairman-led technical conference on July 23 (Docket AD26-7-000) targets PJM's governance and stakeholder processes, with a stated focus on whether the RTO can act fast enough to meet operational and market needs.
Energy
In Docket RM24-8-000, FERC approved 11 modified Critical Infrastructure Protection standards and a wave of new NERC glossary definitions, clearing a regulatory path for virtualized and cloud-style architectures in grid cybersecurity.
Energy
The Commission has noticed its annual Commissioner-led Reliability Technical Conference for October 21, 2026, in Docket AD26-8-000 to weigh policy on the reliability and security of the Bulk-Power System.
Energy
A grant issued today gives Sungrow protection for an MPPT control method that steers a solar inverter using its own internal losses — DC-side and conversion losses — rather than panel output alone. It is a small idea with a direct line to harvested energy.
Energy
A grant issued today gives SK On protection for a nickel-rich cathode defined by how little its crystal lattice deforms during cycling — measured by in-situ X-ray diffraction. The limitation is precise, and it tells you where the company thinks the durability fight is.
Energy
FERC reopens comment on the FERC-725N collection covering NERC standard TPL-007-4, which requires utilities to plan transmission performance against geomagnetic disturbance events.
