Tag: Quiet Breakouts
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One in eight US patents on immersion cooling for data centers belongs to Baidu — more than Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Nvidia, Intel and Dell combined. It bet heaviest on two-phase cooling, whose working fluid stopped being manufactured at the end of 2025.
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The biggest change to chip wiring since the 1960s is shipping first from Intel — but the patent wall is being built by TSMC, a Belgian research lab, and a company that sold its last factory in 2015.
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Betavoltaic battery patents are quietly stacking up after a dead decade — and the new entrants are a Florida pacemaker startup, Korea’s atomic institute, and the company that makes a third of the world’s EV batteries.
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Ammonia is the fuel that almost works. A Charlotte spin-out with ten patents and a NASCAR pedigree is cracking it into hydrogen on a moving engine, using waste heat nobody else is chasing.
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Bolt Threads killed Mylo and MycoWorks went bankrupt, yet US mycelium patents hit an all-time high in 2025. The reason: Hermès and Nike are quietly filing their own.
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TDK, the only merchant maker of hard-drive read heads, now leads every company including Samsung in granted patents for doing neural-network math with magnetism.
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Mojo Vision’s smart contact lens was pronounced dead in 2023. The patents never stopped: 125 grants, an implant for the blind, Air Force trials, and a $1.35B Dubai startup. The tech was fine. The customer was wrong.