Nippon.com based on data from the European Patent Office.
By technical field, Japan had 2,009 applications for electrical machinery, apparatus, energy; 1,411 for transport; and 1,375 for digital communication. The latter, in particular, saw a strong increase, up 10.6% from 2019.
Sony remained the top Japanese company for the fifth consecutive year. Globally, its ranking has been rising, having placed eleventh in 2018, ninth in 2019, and eighth in 2020.
Top 10 Japanese Companies by Number of Patents Filed with the EPO
Company
On March 31, 2021, ALJ Dee Lord issued a notice of initial
determination ( ID ) in
Certain
Lithium-Ion Battery Cells, Battery Modules, Battery Packs,
Components Thereof, and Products Containing the
Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-1181). According to the notice, the
ALJ found no violation of section 337.
By way of background, this investigation was instituted on
October 29, 2019 based on a complaint filed by LG Chem, Ltd. of the
Republic of Korea; LG Chem Michigan Inc. of Holland, Michigan; and
Toray Industries, lnc. of Japan alleging violation of section 337
by Respondents SK Innovation Co., Ltd. of the Republic of Korea and
SK Battery America, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia through the
On March 30, 2021, the ITC issued a
Notice of Investigation in
Certain Smart
Thermostat Systems, Smart HVAC Systems, Smart HVAC Control Systems,
and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-1258).
By way of background, this investigation is based on a February
26, 2021 complaint filed by EcoFactor, Inc. of
Palo Alto, California ( EcoFactor ) alleging a violation
of Section 337 by ecobee Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, ecobee, Inc. of
Toronto, Canada, Google LLC of Mountain View, California, Carrier
Global Corporation of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Emerson Electric
Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, Honeywell International Inc. of
Charlotte, North Carolina, Johnson Controls International, PLC of
Ireland; Siemens Industry, Inc. of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, and
AMD is planning to introduce an active bridge chiplet with integrated cache on an upcoming GPU architecture. A new patent filed by the company has been spotted describing the use of the active bridge chiplet, which seems to offer a significant upgrade over the passive bridge chiplet design showed earlier this year.
According to the patent shared on Reddit by u/marakeshmode, the active bridge chiplet would work an intercommunication lane across the chiplet dies. This would also feature a shared L3 cache buffer for all compute units, similar to Infinity Cache on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs.
The patent further explains that any communication made between the GPU chiplets would go through the active bridge chiplet. For developers, the new GPUs would work as a single, monolithic GPU, ignoring any chiplet-specific considerations from older MCM designs.
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Well, if it’s not obvious already, 2020 had completely different plans for us, and as it turns out, 2021 is no different, though this doesn’t stop us and the companies out there from dreaming about a high-tech future where means of transportation would be completely different.
Subaru appears to be one of these companies, as the Japanese carmaker has recently come up with an idea that may sound unexpected at first but which more and more industry giants are exploring.
As discovered recently, Subaru has filed a patent for what it describes as a “
land-and-air vehicle,” which is essentially a flying motorcycle that comes with all the features you’d normally expect from a conventional bike, but which can transform into a VTOL with the press of a button.