Wireless Power Transfer for Desalination Plants Patent Landscape
With only 3 patent families on record, wireless power transfer applied specifically to desalination plants is an extremely nascent intersection of two established fields. All activity traces to a single burst in 2021, with Koninklijke Philips NV holding the dominant share and individual inventors rounding out the remainder.
Koninklijke Philips NV leads a field with near-zero competitive depth
Koninklijke Philips NV is the top-ranked applicant in this space, accounting for the largest share of the small corpus. The runner-up positions are held by individual inventors — Dimmock Mark Stewart, Mark Stewart Dimmock, and Stephen Christopher Colin — whose filings appear closely related.
The top five filers account for the entire combined total of the hundred largest filers, indicating extreme concentration. There is no meaningful second tier; the entire corpus is held by one corporate entity and a small group of individual inventors.
| # | Applicant | Patent records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Koninklijke Philips NV | 2 | |
| 2 | Dimmock Mark Stewart (individual inventor) | 1 | |
| 3 | Mark Stewart Dimmock (individual inventor) | 1 | |
| 4 | Stephen Christopher Colin (individual inventor) | 1 |
Philips’ position here likely reflects broader wireless charging IP rather than desalination-specific innovation, suggesting that no organization has yet made a deliberate, sustained commitment to this application domain.
The corpus is very small and the most recent years may still be subject to publication lag, so the absence of post-2021 records should be treated cautiously. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
A single filing year and a narrow technology mix define this space
The filing trend and technology composition together reveal a field that has not yet attracted sustained, multi-year investment from any player. The IPC mix reflects general wireless power and marine infrastructure rather than desalination-specific engineering.
Annual filing trend
All recorded activity concentrates in 2021, with zero filings in every other year of the observed window. The lifecycle stage is Decline — annual volume has eased back from the 2021 peak. Note that the most recent 18–24 months remain subject to publication lag and cannot be read as confirmed absence of new filings.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
H02J (power supply and grid systems) is the dominant IPC class, consistent with inductive/wireless charging infrastructure. H01F (magnets, inductors, and transformers) appears as the secondary class. The presence of B63B and B63G (ships and naval vessels), F03D (wind turbines), and F17C (pressure vessels and gas storage) suggests the filings address offshore or marine-integrated desalination contexts rather than land-based plant installations.
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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.
Hydrogen transportation and storage system
A hydrogen container (30) including: a body (31) with a first hemispherical end (32) spaced apart from a second hemispherical end (33); a cylindrical sidewall (34) connecting the first and second ends (32, 33) to form the body (31) of the hydrogen storage container (30); a cavity (35) defined by the body (31); and one or more bands (37) wrapped around the… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
Open this patent in Eureka →| # | Patent | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hydrogen transportation and storage system | 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.
What the landscape structure means for R&D investment
Three patent families across two jurisdictions signal that this intersection is commercially unexplored. The structural observations below help frame the risk and opportunity for an engineer evaluating entry.
Lifecycle stage: Decline from a single-year spike
The field peaked in 2021 and has seen no further recorded filings. This is consistent with a proof-of-concept or exploratory filing burst rather than a sustained research program. Any organization entering now would be establishing the first real R&D footprint rather than competing with an entrenched body of work.
Early / DecliningNear-total concentration in one corporate applicant and individual inventors
The top five filers account for all of the activity among the hundred largest filers. Koninklijke Philips NV leads by patent records, but its filings appear rooted in general wireless charging rather than desalination-specific design. No established desalination technology company, energy utility, or academic institution appears in the ranking, leaving the application domain effectively unclaimed.
Highly ConcentratedNo co-applicant filings detected
Evidence pending — no collaboration records appear in the dataset. The absence of co-filing activity reinforces the picture of an immature field with no established consortium, joint-development agreement, or university partnership yet directing resources toward this specific application.
No Collaboration DataIndia and Australia are the only jurisdictions on record
India leads with the most patent records, followed by Australia. The absence of filings in major innovation hubs such as the United States, Europe, China, or Japan underscores that no large-scale commercial program has emerged. India’s lead is noteworthy given its active desalination infrastructure investment, but the absolute volume remains minimal.
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Co-filing pairs, ranked by the number of jointly-filed patent families.
Frequently asked questions
The evidence covers 3 patent families in scope. This is an extremely small corpus, indicating the specific intersection of wireless power transfer and desalination plant applications is nascent and commercially unexplored.
Koninklijke Philips NV is the top-ranked applicant, holding 2 patent records. Individual inventors Dimmock Mark Stewart, Mark Stewart Dimmock, and Stephen Christopher Colin each hold 1 patent record and appear to represent a related or shared filing.
India leads with 2 patent records, followed by Australia with 1. No filings are recorded in the United States, Europe, China, Japan, or other major innovation jurisdictions within this dataset.
The lifecycle stage is Decline. All recorded activity concentrated in 2021, and annual volume has eased back from that peak with no subsequent filings detected in later years, though publication lag may affect the most recent periods.
H02J (power supply and grid systems) covers all 3 patent records, making it the dominant class. H01F (magnets, inductors, and transformers) appears in 2 records. Marine and offshore classes B63B and B63G, along with energy-adjacent classes F03D, F03G, F17C, G05B, and H04Q, each appear once, reflecting a mix of wireless power fundamentals and offshore application contexts.
Given the total corpus of 3 patent families, the entire application domain is effectively open. The most technically coherent adjacent branches with sparse coverage include offshore wind-integrated wireless power delivery (F03D) and wireless power for marine pressure vessel or gas storage systems (F17C), both of which have only 1 patent record each.
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