Automotive
Most joining patents assume a flat die. This one issued on 28 July with warpage written into the independent claims as a given, and builds the joint around it.
Automotive
A published application grades steering degradation into three bands, one of which quietly compensates and one of which raises a service notification. That is a warranty mechanism described in claim language.
Automotive
A battery application published July 16 is directed to a double-sided solid-state stack in which the electrolyte content of the anode layer varies through its thickness. The claim structure, and a manufacturing method built on layer transfer, suggest where Toyota is pointing its cell-development effort.
Automotive
A newly issued camera-radar sensor-fusion patent lands alongside five sibling grants that together trace an end-to-end autonomy pipeline — from raw sensor tensors to trajectory prediction and pull-over reasoning.
Automotive
An 8-K filed July 2, 2026 pairs Lucid's second-quarter production and delivery totals with a finance leadership change: Alexander De Bock is named incoming CFO as Taoufiq Boussaid prepares to depart after Q2 results.
Automotive
Newly published Hyundai applications describe a server that dispatches one EV to charge another and settles the transaction — price fields, fee estimates, and logistics classifications included. The signal is a move toward charging as a dispatched, billable service.
Automotive
Toyota holds 43 issued grants in the June 30, 2026 drop, the largest single-assignee block. The most commercially revealing is a remote-operator switch built for running driverless vehicles, not selling driver assist.
Automotive
The lidar maker's 424B5 prospectus supplement opens an at-the-market offering through Deutsche Bank, Mizuho and Craig-Hallum, names general corporate purposes as the use of proceeds, and discloses immediate per-share dilution against a recent $0.36 share price.
Robotics
Toyota published 78 applications in a single week, and where they concentrate — battery cells and materials, EV propulsion and charging, plus a thread of vehicle-dynamics control — reads as a portfolio pointed at electrification and software-managed power.
Automotive
The electric commercial-truck maker registered an at-the-market common-stock program through Roth Capital Partners, disclosing $1.14 per share of dilution to new investors and proceeds earmarked for working capital and debt servicing.
Automotive
A June 22 current report from Lucid Group discloses a restructuring plan: an approximately 18% U.S. workforce reduction, elimination of the AMP-1 second production shift, roughly $158 million in annualized savings, and the departure of the Chief Operating Officer.
Automotive
When a buyer pays for software features delivered over time, the automaker can't book all of it at delivery. Here is how deferred revenue and ASC 606 performance obligations work in the filings.
Automotive
Form 8-K is the current report companies file for material events; Item 2.02 covers results of operations. Here is how it works and why automakers' quarterly numbers travel through it.
Automotive
Item 303 of Regulation S-K is the SEC rule behind the Management's Discussion and Analysis section. Here is what it requires companies to explain about their results and known uncertainties.
Automotive
Section 45X is a per-unit U.S. tax credit for domestically producing batteries and components. Here is what it is and how an automaker accounts for it in its financial statements.
Automotive
Production and delivery figures are the operating metrics automakers report ahead of earnings, usually via a Form 8-K. Here is what each measures and how the disclosure works.
Automotive
Regulatory-credit revenue is income an automaker earns by selling tradable emissions and compliance credits to other manufacturers. Here is what it is and how the revenue is recognized.
Automotive
A recall-cost accrual is the liability a manufacturer records for a recall campaign once the cost is probable and reasonably estimable. Here is the loss-contingency rule behind it and how GM applies it.
Automotive
A warranty reserve is the accrued liability an automaker books at the time of sale for the future cost of fixing vehicles under warranty. Here is what the accounting requires and how to read it.
Automotive
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.
Automotive
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.
Automotive
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.
Automotive
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.
Automotive
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.
