Intellectual Property

  Renewable energy has surged in the U.S., reaching 24% of total electricity generation in 2024, with solar and wind leading the transition. But which renewable technologies are truly advancing in innovation? A PatSeer -based patent landscape study (2015-mid-2025) reveals a striking contrast between market deployment and patent activity.   Using the CPC category Y02E10 , covering solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and marine energy, the analysis shows:   Key Patent Filing Trends   Photovoltaics dominate with 3,200+ filings, far outpacing all other sectors.   Wind energy has the fewest patents despite contributing heavily to real-world power generation-signaling maturity rather than lack of innovation.   Thermal-PV hybrids, marine, and geothermal show early-stage but promising patent traction.   Top Innovators   Established firms like Halliburton , Schlumberger , and Saudi Aramco are extending their drilling expertise into renewable segments. Me...

  The patent world is expanding rapidly, with millions of filings every year and increasingly complex technical disclosures. Traditional Boolean search alone can’t keep up. That’s why AI-driven patent platforms are becoming essential - they understand meaning, analyze claims, recommend relevant documents, and accelerate prior art discovery far beyond keyword matching.   Here are five AI patent tools transforming IP research in 2025 :   PatSeer offers 172M+ records, AI image-based design search, smart claim mapping, and PatAssist , an AI co-pilot that guides experts through FTO, licensing, and enforcement.   Amplified AI reads entire patents using deep learning, improving recall and ranking results by conceptual similarity instead of keyword overlap.   IPRally uses graph -based search that acts like a patent expert, ideal for engineering and legal collaboration.   NLPatent is powered by a patent-trained LLM that ranks conceptual similarities and reve...