This article analyzes why defect detection on gigafactory electrode lines is shifting from cloud-server-based to edge-embedded AI vision inspection, and examines the claim scope and design-around points of the underlying semiconductor metrology patent (KLA’s US11776108B2).
This article looks at the background behind City Labs’ tritium satellite reaching commercial orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-17 mission, and examines the competitive landscape for nuclear batteries, including BetaVolt.
This article analyzes the impact that the all-solid-state battery international standard project, approved by the IEC on August 21, 2026, has on patent strategy, using the cases of CATL, BYD, Samsung SDI, and LG Energy Solution.
This article analyzes how the 2027 pilot-production race among CATL, BYD, and Samsung SDI in all-solid-state batteries is affecting the reshaping of cell formats and demand for AI machine-vision inspection equipment.
This article organizes the China-led launch of the international all-solid-state battery standard in August 2026, along with the mass-production roadmaps of CATL, Toyota-Idemitsu, and Samsung SDI — including key patents and points to watch for design-arounds.
This article analyzes, from a patent portfolio perspective, ‘SolidStack,’ the pouch-type all-solid-state battery for Physical AI that Samsung SDI unveiled at InterBattery 2026.
In the secondary-battery industry, all-solid-state batteries (a next-generation battery that uses a solid-state electrolyte instead of a liquid one to raise both safety and energy density) have, over the past several years, been a technology whose commercialization timing kept slipping further back, always under the label of a “dream battery.”
Any team developing lithium-ion battery cells with a silicon-based anode has likely run into a particular wall at some point.
A hands-on comparison of BYD Blade (stacking) and CATL (winding) 186.7 Ah LFP cells, and its patent and strategy implications.
U.S. solid-state battery company Solid Power has fleshed out a plan to produce sulfide-based solid electrolyte through a joint venture (JV) with a major Korean company, presenting a blueprint that starts at an initial 500 tons in 2028 and adds 2,000-ton modules to reach a final 20,000 tons per year.