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Climate & Energy
- Claims Brief: What the Cap-as-Current-Collector Cylindrical Cell Actually Fences Off
- Why Long-Duration Storage Is Going Thermal — Read Through a Rondo Energy Patent
- What a 'Reference Electrode' in the Separator Buys a Battery — Read Through a GM Patent
- Landscape Report: Reinforcement Learning Is Quietly Moving Into Grid Control (H02J)
- Claim 1: A New Solid-Electrolyte Grant Claims the Material, Then the Method, Then the Cell
- Claim 1: Eaton's 'Configurable' Power Module and the Value of One Box for Two Jobs
- From Patent to Grid: What 'Shingled' Solar Cells Do — and Why the Module Patent Includes Grid Tags
- White Space Watch: Grid-Forming Control and Learning Agents Haven't Met in the Patent Record Yet
- Family Tree: How Enphase's IP Grew From a Panel-Level Inverter to a Portable Power System
- From Patent to Grid: How a Microgrid Rejoins the Big Grid Without a Bump
- Claim 1: What a 'Bidirectional' Storage Converter Patent Actually Locks Down
- From Patent to Grid: The 'Black Start' Claim Behind Grid-Forming Inverters
- Claim 1: Sandia's Solid-State Transformer Patent Targets a Single Failure Mode — Common-Mode Insults
- Assignee Profile: Enphase Is Quietly Patenting the Home Energy Layer, Not Just the Inverter
- Claim 1: Enphase's 2025 Microinverter Grant Fences Off the Control Loop, Not the Hardware
- From Patent to Grid: Georgia Tech's Multiport "Energy Router" and the One-Box Grid Interface
- Landscape Report: Solid-State Transformer IP in 2025 — Labs, Universities, and the Huawei Wildcard
- Claim 1: Nanyang's Solid-State Transformer Controller Patent — The Brain, Not the Box
- From Patent to Grid: Ohmium's Patent on Wiring a Hydrogen Plant to the Grid
- Claim 1: KAIST's Dynamic Wireless-Charging Patent Claims Coordination of a Moving Target
- Claim 1: A Utility's Patent on Managing EV Charging Through the Smart Meter
- From Patent to Grid: Oak Ridge's Power-Distribution Control Patent and the National-Lab Pipeline
- Claim 1: SolarEdge's Distributed-MPPT Patent and the Limitation That Carries It
- Claim 1: Duke Energy's "Advanced Power Distribution Platform" Claims the Software, Not the Substation
- Claim 1: SigmaGen's "Multi-Modal" MPPT Patent and What the Adjective Hides
- Landscape Report: In 2024 the Utilities Themselves Started Filing Grid-Software Patents
- From Patent to Grid: Porsche's EV Load-Management Patent Is Really About Protecting the Feeder
- Claim 1: Aramco's "Intelligent Inverter" Patent and the Reconfigurable-Algorithm Limitation
- Claim 1: GE's Patent on Damping the Oscillation That Haunts Grid-Forming Inverters
- From Patent to Grid: Honeywell's Battery-Storage Control Filing and the Operator's-Eye View
- From Patent to Grid: B2U's Patent on Running Used EV Batteries on the Grid
- From Patent to Grid: 8minute's Patent on the Energy a Battery Wastes Just Sitting There
- From Patent to Grid: A Direct-Grid-Connected Battery Conversion Patent and the Stage You Can Skip
- From Patent to Grid: Microsoft's Patent Stacking Thermal, Liquid-Metal, and Cryogenic Storage
- Landscape Report: Grid-Forming Inverter IP Came of Age in 2023 — The Assignee Map
- Claim 1: GE's Grid-Forming Patent Claims a Trick, Not a Capability — Virtual Impedance
- From Patent to Grid: Schneider Electric's Microgrid Power-Management Filing, Read for Intent
- Claim 1: ABB's Wireless EV-Charging Patent Fences Off Alignment, Not Magnetism
- Claim 1: Raytheon's Multi-Cell Wireless Power Patent Claims the Array, Not the Coil
- From Patent to Grid: Hitachi Energy's Microgrid Control Patent and the Model-Predictive Turn
- Landscape Report: Wireless Power Transfer IP in 2022 Split Cleanly Between Phones and Cars
- Claim 1: Causam's Grid-Messaging Patent Claims the Network, Not the Wire
- Claim 1: L7 Drive's DC-DC Converter Patent and the Control-Scheme Limitation
- Landscape Report: Smart-Grid Metering IP in 2021 Was Two Companies and a Crowd
- From Patent to Grid: The Multi-Port DC/DC Converter and the Many-Sources Problem
- Claim 1: Mainspring's DC-DC Converter Patent Is Really About a Moving Generator
- From Patent to Grid: EPC Power's Converter Patent and the Grid-Stability Knob Nobody Sees
- Claim 1: GE's "Grid Emulation Mode" Patent Lets a Solar Inverter Pretend to Be the Grid
- Landscape Report: Who Was Filing Power-Grid Control Patents in 2020 — The Assignee Spread
- Claim 1: XSLENT's 2020 Grid-Saturation Patent Fences Off Coordination, Not Hardware
- From Patent to Grid: The Solar Rapid-Shutdown Patent Behind a Rooftop Safety Rule
- Claim 1: Con Edison's PV Patent Claims Prediction, Not Panels
- From Patent to Grid: Rolls-Royce's Microgrid Control Patent and the Islanding Problem
Energy
- FERC Issues Final EIS for the 972-MW Seminoe Pumped Storage Project in Wyoming
- PacifiCorp's 6.7-MW Ashton Hydro Enters FERC Review With an August Comment Deadline
- Oncor Files Transmission Rate Changes for Its Interconnection Tariff: Inside Docket NJ26-8
- FERC Walks Away From the Demand-Response Opt-Out Question, Five Years Later
- FERC Holds the Line on Order No. 915: Construction Can Proceed While Rehearing Pends
- FERC Will Press PJM on Speed: The July Governance Conference and the Interconnection Backlog
- Order No. 919: FERC Approves 11 Revised CIP Standards to Let Virtualization Onto the Grid
- FERC Sets Its Annual Reliability Conference for October: What AD26-8 Signals for the Grid
- From Patent to Grid: Sungrow's MPPT Patent Goes After the Losses Inside the Inverter
- Claim 1: SK On's New Cathode Patent Fences Off a Lattice Measurement, Not a Magic Material
- The Grid Standard for Surviving a Solar Storm Comes Up for Federal Review
- FERC Reopens the Books on CIP-002-8, the Rule That Decides Which Grid Assets Get Cyber-Protected
- Oncor Files New Transmission Rates at FERC for Service Across Texas Interconnections
- FERC Turns to Grid-Enhancing Tech and Load Forecasting to Squeeze More From Existing Wires
- FERC Calls PJM's Governance Onto the Carpet With a Commissioner-Led Conference
- PJM Buys More Time on Order 1920's Hardest Problem: Who Pays for New Transmission
Energy IP
- One independent claim, three words of real scope
- LG Energy Solution Claims a Two-Ingredient Electrode Protective Coating
- What CATL's Sodium Cell Water-Removal Application Actually Claims
- What Fluence's Power-Electronics Diagnostics Application Actually Claims
- Newly Published Applications Claim a Battery Pack That Redirects Coolant to Spray Cells and Delay Ignition
- A Granted Patent Claims a Jig-Supported Bus-Bar That Backs the Electrode Lead During Welding
- What Solid-State Battery Patents Actually Claim: Reading the Anode-Free Architecture
- What Is Grid-Forming Inverter Technology? Reading It Through the Patents
- What Is CPC Class H02M? The Classification Behind Inverter and Power-Electronics Patents
- What Is CPC Class H02J? The Classification Behind Grid and Power-Network Patents
- What CPC Class Are Battery Patents? Reading H01M, H01M 10, and H01M 50
- A Newly Published Application Claims a Dual-String Battery With Per-String Converters and Separate Supervision Loops