Google's X Lab Patents a Way to Read Power Grid Data From Aerial Photos
Alphabet's X lab wants to figure out whether a transformer on a utility pole is rated for 25 kilovolt-amps or 50, without…
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Samsung Patents Battery Material That Charges More Reliably Without Liquid Inside
Solid-state batteries have been the promised future of EVs and phones for years, but the electrolyte inside them is notoriously hard to…
Samsung Patents a Power Strip That Cuts Its Own Electricity and Wakes Up When You Walk Over
A lot of electricity gets wasted by devices that are just sitting there plugged in, doing nothing. Samsung's latest patent describes a…
Samsung Patents New Chloride-Based Solid Electrolyte for Solid-State Batteries
Samsung is exploring a new family of chloride-based solid electrolyte materials — compounds built from lithium, sodium, magnesium, and chlorine — that…
Tesla Patents a Simplified Electrode Material Process That Skips Costly Milling
Tesla is patenting a way to make the active materials inside EV battery electrodes without a grinding step that currently adds cost…
Tesla Patents a Precision Trimming System for Dry Electrode Battery Manufacturing
Tesla is filing patents deep in battery manufacturing process engineering — and this one tackles one of the trickiest steps in making…
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