Article on fusion patents of FIA members

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crowberry
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Article on fusion patents of FIA members

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The article The growth of intellectual property ownership in the private-sector fusion industry studies and summarizes the patents of the members of the Fusion Industry Association. The three largest patent applicants in recent years are Tokamak Energy, TAE Technologies and General Fusion. The (paywalled) article can be found here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112815.

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I saw that. Indeed the IP in fusion is growing rapidly. Helion has a few patents granted already too. I think ZAP has a few applications out as well.

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According to the article Helion Energy has filed three patent applications and one of them has been granted and the other two are pending. According to the article there is no patent assigned to ZAP Energy, but there is a patent filed in 2017 by Shumlak, Nelson and McLean on behalf of the University of Washington and LLNL.

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crowberry wrote:
Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:25 pm
According to the article Helion Energy has filed three patent applications and one of them has been granted and the other two are pending. According to the article there is no patent assigned to ZAP Energy, but there is a patent filed in 2017 by Shumlak, Nelson and McLean on behalf of the University of Washington and LLNL.
I am pretty sure that the patent for the FDR was granted, though that might have been filed under MSNW?

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In case anyone wants to follow Reddit content posted by the FIA's CEO, Andrew Holland, here is a link:

https://old.reddit.com/user/AndrewHollandFIA

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Re: Article on fusion patents of FIA members

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The FIA has published its annual report:

https://www.fusionindustryassociation.o ... n-industry

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