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Editorial hero image showing a glowing GPU fed by fiber-optic cables, suggesting ownership of the optical interconnect layer behind AI infrastructure.
Jul 3, 2026Seth Cronin

NVIDIA Rents the AI Interconnect

Patent data shows telecom incumbents, not NVIDIA or funded startups, own the optical interconnect layer behind AI compute valuations.

Battery patent filings show an accelerating race across LFP, solid state, silicon anodes, recycling, and early quantum energy storage white space.
Jul 2, 2026Seth Cronin

Battery Technology Patents: The IEA Called It Unprecedented. The Data Agrees.

Battery patent filings jumped 198% in eight years. See who leads, which chemistries are still open, and why quantum storage is rare white space.

Open-weight models are not really an open-source story. For IP-sensitive companies, their strategic value is controlling where inference runs and keeping sensitive data inside the perimeter.
Jun 26, 2026Seth Cronin

Open Weights Are Really a Trade Secret Play

Open weight AI models are really a trade secret control. Running inference inside your own perimeter keeps unfiled inventions out of vendor logs.

A 98,229-family medtech AI landscape reveals where healthcare AI is actually being patented, who owns it, and where white space remains.
Jun 25, 2026Seth Cronin

The Medtech AI Innovation Map: Where 98,229 Patents Say Healthcare Is Actually Going in 2026

98,229 medtech patents show computer vision leading healthcare AI, Samsung and Apple outfiling incumbents, and where white space remains.

Agentic EDI Infrastructure
Jun 23, 2026John Cronin

EDI’s Dullest Corner Is Suddenly the AI Wedge

EDI exception handling is the real agentic AI opening in B2B software. The patent white space around autonomous document intelligence is still open.

The Data-to-Content Layer
Jun 23, 2026John Cronin

No-Code Has a Plumbing Problem

The no-code patent white space is not the page builder. It is the integration layer that turns business data into live customer-facing content.

AI is changing cybersecurity twice over: as a defensive tool and as a new attack surface. The patent landscape shows where the next moats are forming.
Jun 23, 2026Seth Cronin

The Quiet Patent War Inside Cybersecurity: Why AI Just Changed the Rules

AI security patents grew 60x in a decade. See who leads the filing race and why agent autonomy is the best open ground for a new portfolio.

Diagram titled Who Owns What in an AI Drug Discovery Deal, showing an AI drug discovery platform connected through an undefined-ownership question mark to three IP assets created at signing: generated training data, fine-tuned model weights, and drug candidates
Jun 22, 2026John Cronin

AI Drug Discovery IP Ownership: Three Assets Created at Signing

Merck’s $510M Protillion deal shows AI drug discovery IP ownership splits into three assets: the dataset, the model, and the candidates it surfaces.

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Jun 19, 2026John Cronin

Your Calendar Knows More Than Your Chatbot

Calendar and contact data is the richest context layer for personal AI. Patent filings are climbing but the invention white space is still open.

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Jun 19, 2026John Cronin

The Fitness Sensor Is Already in Your Pocket

Camera-based fitness AI turns the phone into a movement coach. Patent filings grew 84% since 2021 but the application layer is still open.

A high-voltage transmission tower stands sentinel at dawn, power lines glowing into data filaments, casting heavy infrastructure as the unexpected guardian of the AI-security frontier.
Jun 18, 2026Seth Cronin

A Power Utility Is Winning the AI-Security Patent Race

The top AI security patent owner is a Chinese power utility, not a vendor. The open frontier now sits at the model, prompt, and agent layer.

Healthcare AI patent filings have grown from 172 families in 2015 to more than 11,000 in 2025, led by imaging incumbents and a few serious challengers.
Jun 18, 2026Seth Cronin

Healthcare AI Is the Quietest Patent Boom in Tech

Healthcare AI patents grew 67x in a decade. Imaging incumbents lead, China files 44%, and the frontier is moving into robotic surgery workflows.

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