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CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER. Latest published applications 2017-2019. Experimental CSP
Summary
Experimental CSPs are innovative technological solutions that improve the efficiency of existing plants, or expand the range of applications for concentrated solar energy. These include, for example, polymer solar concentrators or liquid lenses, photobioreactors, hybrid solar systems, solar thermal dish collectors, etc. Concentrated solar energy technologies have also found applications, for example, to generate steam in an environmentally friendly manner and to enhance oil recovery. The largest parabolic solar station is Miraah, located in an oil field in Oman, which facilitates the production of high-viscosity oil by heating the reservoir; it has a total capacity of more than 1 GW. Timely and up-to-date information on the latest patent applications on the subject of Experimental CSP is presented in this statistical bulletin.
A selection of patent applications related to experimental CSP and published by patent offices around the globe in 2017-2019 is provided for review in the present bulletin. General research methodology can be found on the Advanced Energy Technologies website. The present bulletin includes 176 patent applications, prepared by applicants from 15 countries and registered in 22 patent offices. The patent documents mention 102 applicants and 175 IPC subgroups.
Key Highlights
The bulletin contains statistical data on the distribution of patent documents by years, by patent offices and by applicant countries, applicant-related data (residents and non-residents), data on the most frequently mentioned International Patent Classification divisions (sections, classes, subclasses, groups, and subgroups). The top three patent offices that registered the largest number of patent applications were CNIPA (CN), USPTO (US) and WIPO.
For each of the patent documents selected for the examination in the present bulletin the characteristics of unified indicators were preliminary defined, they include: technical problems, types of inventive solutions employed, belonging to one or other technological segment. This allows the internal content for each of the indicators in the aggregate array of documents to be visualized, for instance, to define the sequence and proportional correlation of technical problems the inventive solutions disclosed in the texts aim to solve. A list of the top 10 groups consisting of patent documents with identical unified indicators contains ID numbers and applicant names of respective documents; the groups are sorted by the number of patent documents.
A list of the top 10 applicants by the number of patent documents includes Brilliant Light Power Inc (USA), Bolymedia Holdings Co. Ltd (USA), Van Leeuw Jon Otegui (USA), Ez-Energies Gmbh (Germany), King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KASCT) (South Africa), BASF, SE (Germany), BICEA Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering & Architecture (China), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH) (Switzerland), Heliovis AG (Austria), Nippon Steel Corporation (Japan). Data representing the share in the established intellectual property market, distribution of applications by problems, IPC sections, patent offices and technology indicators is provided in the form of tables and diagrams for them.
The prominent documents pages contain the top 10 patent applications with the highest bibliographical rating, the most extensive coverage of IPC sections, and those not being a part of patent family.
A list of all of the documents reviewed, arranged by the top 10 groups of patent documents with identical unified indicators and by patent offices with the indication of the ID numbers of the registered patent applications are provided in the conclusive part of the bulletin.
Who needs this bulletin?
The data provided in the proposed bulletin is a timely reflection of the transformations that take place in the intellectual property sector of the industrial direction concerned. A thoroughly edited selection of patent documents can become a good complement to your library of available technical solutions. The bulletin is targeted at inventors, engineers, researchers, managers and business administrators involved in the development of concentrated solar power production technologies.
