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A Federal Register notice details why the agency declined to open a formal defect investigation into alleged sudden unintended acceleration across roughly 6 million Kia and Hyundai vehicles.
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Among more than a hundred Hyundai applications published June 18, a tight cluster of battery cell-monitoring, overstress-protection and wireless management filings points to where the company has been directing pack-level R&D — the electronics that watch the cells, not the cells themselves.
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Four applications published March 19 from one Volvo Car engineering team cluster on vehicle-to-vehicle diagnostics and car-to-car charge transfer — an ~18-month-delayed look at where the company's connected-vehicle R&D has been going.
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A single issue date put 15 DENSO patents on the record, spread across the supplier's content lines — power semiconductors and a traction-motor rotor at one end, automated-driving control and a 5G base station at the other.
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A March 26 application for per-wheel electric motors lands inside a recent Ferrari publication cluster on thermal management, cabin cooling and on-body solar — an ~18-month-delayed look at where the company has been spending R&D.
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A single issue date put a dozen BMW patents on the record, running the length of the vehicle — an electric-machine rotor and a fuel-cell catalyst at one end, lane-change assistance and a reconfigurable cabin display at the other.
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Among 11 Hyundai applications published April 2, the recurring subject is thermal management — coolant routing, heat-exchange modules, and cabin-heating logic that conserves energy. The cluster signals where R&D is heading.
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Seventeen GM patents issued in one day, with a tight cluster on rotor cooling, magnet geometry, and battery-cell construction. The claims map where the company has put enforceable coverage inside the drive unit.
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Of 58 Toyota patent applications published the week of April 9, the largest block sits inside the battery cell: sulfide solid electrolytes, bipolar electrode manufacturing, and cathode active materials. The cluster signals where the R&D is being spent.
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A single grant day put fifteen Ford patents on the books, clustered around traction-battery enclosures, lithium-and-manganese-rich cathode formulas, and bidirectional charging. Here is what the issued claims now cover.
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Every one of the 11 Mazda applications published April 16, 2026 describes a method for processing a spent lithium-ion battery to deposit and collect lithium from the cell. The cluster points the company's published R&D squarely at end-of-life recovery.
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A single April 14, 2026 issue date put 23 Honda patents on the record, spanning lithium-plating detection, EV power control, over-the-air updates and autonomy that reaches beyond the car. Here is the coverage map by subsystem.
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Six Volvo Truck applications published the same day, and four of them concern operating a fuel-cell truck — how to manage 'hot mode,' protect stack health and authenticate charging. The cluster reads as where the R&D is being spent.
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A single April 21, 2026 issue date put 36 GM patents on the record, spread from battery-electrode coatings to automated braking to in-vehicle telematics. Here is what the company locked in, by subsystem.
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A cluster of LG Energy Solution applications published the same day concentrates on containing a thermal event at the cell, cap and pack level — pointing to where the EV-battery supplier is spending R&D on the failure mode that drives recalls.
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A single issue date put 28 GM patents on the record, clustered tightly around the electrified powertrain — from cell chemistry and thermal-runaway containment to the inverter and the electric machine.
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A cluster of Ford applications published the same day describes vehicles marshaling themselves around the assembly plant under their own power — inspection, identification and coordination all handled by the cars, not the conveyor.
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A single issue date put 52 Toyota patents on the record, the largest automaker block in the week. The grants run across the lithium battery and the hydrogen fuel-cell stack together, mapping issued coverage on both electrification routes.
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A May 14 publication on a battery-swapping device sits atop a cell maker's expanding application cluster that now reaches energy storage, manufacturing automation and perovskite photovoltaics.
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SK On's issued patents that week run from a flame-blocking module cover to a thermal-barrier electrode composite, locking in coverage on the part of the cell that decides whether a runaway stays contained.
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A May 21 publication on a reinforcement-learning fleet controller sits on top of a heavy-truck applicant's growing cluster of fuel-cell and battery filings, pointing to where its R&D capital is being directed.
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A single issue date put 63 Hyundai-group grants on the record at once, reaching from hydrogen fuel-cell hardware to a gateway that authenticates devices plugging into the car.
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A May 28 application on managing on-board power for plugged-in accessories joins a run of Ford filings on charging, telemetry and driver onboarding, pointing to a vehicle reimagined as an energy and software platform.
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A May 26 LiDAR motion-detection grant anchors a fast-accumulating cluster of sensing, V2X and perception patents from AUMOVIO, the autonomous-mobility business carved out of Continental.
