Pseudocapacitor Electrode Scale-Up Patent Snapshot 2026
The pseudocapacitor electrode scale-up space is an extremely thin patent field, with only 6 patent families in scope and a single applicant — Intel Corp — holding a commanding position. Activity is highly concentrated and geographically split between India and the United States, signaling that this remains an early-stage, lightly contested area with significant room for new entrants.
Intel Corp leads a highly concentrated, nascent field
Intel Corp holds the top position in the pseudocapacitor electrode scale-up space, accounting for 3 of the ranked patent records — more than any other applicant. The remaining filers — Nitte University, Ram Manoj Kumar, Vellore Institute of Technology, Nanotech Energy Inc, and the Regents of the University of California — each hold a single patent record.
The top five filers collectively account for 88% of the ranked applicants visible in this query’ combined total, indicating extreme concentration. The gap between Intel Corp and the rest of the field is immediate and pronounced: no challenger is close to matching its portfolio depth in this specific application area.
| # | Applicant | Patent records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intel Corp | 3 | |
| 2 | Nitte University | 1 | |
| 3 | Ram Manoj Kumar | 1 | |
| 4 | Vellore Institute of Technology | 1 | |
| 5 | Nanotech Energy Inc | 1 | |
| 6 | Regents of the University of California | 1 |
Intel Corp’s dominance, alongside the presence of academic and individual inventors, suggests that this is a cross-disciplinary area where corporate R&D interest intersects with exploratory university and independent research. The thin total count implies that most potential entrants have not yet staked IP positions here.
Filings from the most recent 18–24 months should be treated as under-counted due to standard patent publication lags; the apparent low activity in 2025–2026 does not necessarily reflect a slowdown. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
A burst in 2018, renewed signals in 2024–2025, and a capacitor-dominated technology mix
The filing trend reveals an isolated cluster of activity in 2018 followed by a multi-year gap, with fresh signals appearing in 2024 and 2025. The technology composition is anchored in capacitor-related classifications, with secondary presence in battery and fuel cell frameworks.
Annual filing trend
Three filings appeared in 2018, followed by zero activity through 2023. A single filing in 2024 and two in 2025 suggest renewed interest, though recent periods are subject to publication lag and should not be read as a definitive trend. The 2026 count of zero reflects lag, not absence of activity.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
H01G (Capacitors) is the visible classification with 7 patent records, followed by H01M (Batteries, cells and fuel cells) at 4. C01B (Non-metallic elements and inorganic compounds) and H01L (Semiconductor devices) each appear once, representing the most sparsely populated branches in the current corpus.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaHighly cited patent families surfaced by the query
Citation-heavy patent families returned by the query. Use this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents.
Method of increasing an energy density and an achi…
Methods of increasing an energy density of an energy storage device involve increasing the capacitance of the energy storage device by depositing a material into a porous structure of the energy storage device using an atomic layer deposition process, by performing a procedure designed to increase a distance to which an electrolyte penetrates within… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
| # | Patent | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Method of increasing an energy density and an achi… | 3 |
| 2 | Method of increasing an energy density and an achi… | 1 |
Ranked by total forward citations. Citation counts favour older and broadly cited patent families, and broad or adjacent patents may appear when they match the search scope. Treat this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents. Some patent titles may be shown in their original, non-English language where an accurate translation could not be guaranteed.
Assignee snapshot from the current evidence set
The applicants below are visible in this query result. Because the evidence set is relatively small, read this section as a directional snapshot rather than a full competitive ranking.
Intel Corp
Intel Corp leads with 3 patent records, focusing primarily on H01G 11 (Capacitors), H01M 10 (Batteries, cells and fuel cells), and H01G 9 (Capacitors). The core inventor group — including Aldridge, Chen, Clendenning, Gardner, Gustafson, Hannah, and Jin — shares an identical technology focus profile, indicating a coordinated internal R&D effort rather than dispersed activity. No momentum trend data for Intel Corp as an entity is available in the evidence, but the 2018 filing cluster suggests an earlier burst of activity.
patent records: 3Nanotech Energy Inc
Nanotech Energy Inc holds 1 patent record and sits alongside Nitte University, Ram Manoj Kumar, Vellore Institute of Technology, and the Regents of the University of California in the challenger tier. Among these, Nanotech Energy Inc is the specialist commercial filer most directly aligned with energy storage scale-up. The momentum evidence identifies Vukmirovic Miomir as a new entrant with a recent filing, signaling that fresh individual or affiliated activity may be building in the US-based portion of the corpus.
patent records: 1Frequently asked questions
The current corpus contains 6 patent families in scope. This is a very thin field by patent-landscape standards, indicating that dedicated scale-up IP is largely unclaimed outside a small group of filers.
Intel Corp leads with 3 patent records, making it the visible filer. No other applicant holds more than 1 patent record in the current corpus.
India and the United States each account for 3 patent records, with Taiwan contributing 1. India’s activity is driven by academic and individual filers, while the US presence is anchored by Intel Corp and Nanotech Energy Inc.
H01G (Capacitors) is the leading classification with 7 patent records, followed by H01M (Batteries, cells and fuel cells) with 4. C01B (Non-metallic elements and inorganic compounds) and H01L (Semiconductor devices) each appear once.
No co-applicant relationships are recorded in the current corpus. The filers — corporate, academic, and individual — appear to be working independently without formal co-filing structures.
The sparsest adjacent branches are C01B (Non-metallic elements and inorganic compounds) and H01L (Semiconductor devices), each with only 1 patent record. Both have direct technical relevance to pseudocapacitor electrode scale-up and represent under-served areas relative to the visible capacitor-focused classification.
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