Energy IP
One independent claim, three words of real scope
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.
Patent Register
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Two Independent Claims: One to a Droplet, One to the Act of Dispensing It
The claim set of an isotope battery application splits cleanly between a device defined by the shape of its radiation source and a method defined by slurry parameters. A pair of dependents claim opposite wetting behaviour.
Claims Brief
Energy IP
LG Energy Solution Claims a Two-Ingredient Electrode Protective Coating
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
What CATL's Sodium Cell Water-Removal Application Actually Claims
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
What Fluence's Power-Electronics Diagnostics Application Actually Claims
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
Claims Brief: What the Cap-as-Current-Collector Cylindrical Cell Actually Fences Off
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
Newly Published Applications Claim a Battery Pack That Redirects Coolant to Spray Cells and Delay Ignition
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 Granted Patent Claims a Jig-Supported Bus-Bar That Backs the Electrode Lead During Welding
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
What Solid-State Battery Patents Actually Claim: Reading the Anode-Free Architecture
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
What Is Grid-Forming Inverter Technology? Reading It Through the Patents
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
What Is CPC Class H02M? The Classification Behind Inverter and Power-Electronics Patents
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
What Is CPC Class H02J? The Classification Behind Grid and Power-Network Patents
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
What CPC Class Are Battery Patents? Reading H01M, H01M 10, and H01M 50
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 Issues Final EIS for the 972-MW Seminoe Pumped Storage Project in Wyoming
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
PacifiCorp's 6.7-MW Ashton Hydro Enters FERC Review With an August Comment Deadline
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 Newly Published Application Claims a Dual-String Battery With Per-String Converters and Separate Supervision Loops
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 Files Transmission Rate Changes for Its Interconnection Tariff: Inside Docket NJ26-8
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
FERC Walks Away From the Demand-Response Opt-Out Question, Five Years Later
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
FERC Holds the Line on Order No. 915: Construction Can Proceed While Rehearing Pends
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
FERC Will Press PJM on Speed: The July Governance Conference and the Interconnection Backlog
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
Order No. 919: FERC Approves 11 Revised CIP Standards to Let Virtualization Onto the Grid
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
FERC Sets Its Annual Reliability Conference for October: What AD26-8 Signals for the Grid
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
From Patent to Grid: Sungrow's MPPT Patent Goes After the Losses Inside the Inverter
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
Claim 1: SK On's New Cathode Patent Fences Off a Lattice Measurement, Not a Magic Material
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.