Claims Brief · Lead record
Three independent claims target a vehicle, a battery cell and a pack built around a temperature-sensitive component that changes the cell's electrical connections.
Claims Brief
The operative limitations are identical across the system, vehicle and method claims. How each one brings the nominal ratio into existence is not — and one of them does it backwards.
Claims Brief
US20260204733A1, published July 16, 2026, claims a double-sided solid-state cell whose second electrode layer varies in electrolyte content through its thickness. The independent claim never says cathode or anode — that assignment waits until claim 3.
Claims Brief
A patent issued July 7, 2026 claims a per-pixel, per-time fusion of camera and radar features into a single tensor, then runs a neural network over it to read a sign's type, value, and relevance before handing the result to vehicle control.
Claims Brief
The independent claim of a newly published Hyundai application covers a system of two electric vehicles and a server that sends one to power the other on request. It is a pending application, not a granted patent, straddling the B60L charging class and the G06Q logistics classes.
Claims Brief
An issued Toyota patent claims a self-driving car’s switch between remote assistance and remote driving. Its pivot is a conjunctive permission test on speed limit, map coverage, and rain.
Claims Brief
A published Toyota application is directed to an electrified vehicle whose control unit counts how often a cell's internal pressure and cathode potential cross their thresholds, then multiplies the two running counts into a single degradation index. It is a pending application, not a granted patent, classified in B60L 58/16 — the battery-management branch of electric propulsion.
Claims Brief
A patent issued June 23, 2026 and assigned to Toyota is directed to a vehicle control method that recognizes positions where a traffic light might be, then steers extra headlight intensity onto those positions and dims the spots a camera later rules out. The independent claim ties the light to the perception loop, and the record is classified in the G06V scene-recognition and B60Q lighting-control branches.
Explainer
A standard-essential patent reads on a technical standard a product must implement to interoperate. Here is what SEPs and FRAND mean, grounded in a real V2X connected-vehicle patent.
Reference
G01S is the Cooperative Patent Classification class for determining distance or velocity using radio waves and analogous wave-based sensing. Here is why automotive LiDAR and radar patents map to it.
Reference
B60L is the Cooperative Patent Classification class for the propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles. Here is what it covers and how it relates to battery-thermal and charging filings.
Reference
B60W is the Cooperative Patent Classification class for conjoint control of vehicle sub-units and road-vehicle drive control. Here is what it covers and why ADAS filings cluster there.
Regulatory Docket
A cluster of complaints filed to NHTSA in spring 2026 describes the 2026 Equinox EV's automatic emergency braking activating with no detected obstacle, including a rear-AEB event the agency logged on May 3, 2026.
Regulatory Docket
Federal investigators opened a Preliminary Evaluation after two owner reports of left rear toe link separation while driving, one of which ended in a collision. The probe follows a January 2026 Rivian recall covering an earlier service procedure.
Claims Brief
A published application directed to a wireless-charging receiver housing that is integrally cast in metal, with the refrigerant flow path formed inside the housing itself. It is a pending application, not a granted patent, and it sits in a recent cluster of electric-propulsion and battery filings.
Research Brief
A Duke research team embeds dormant malware in LiDAR firmware and activates it from outside the vehicle with a modulated light signal — injecting and suppressing objects at 300 feet. The attack surface is the sensor's own development and deployment pipeline.
Recall Report
A second Ioniq recall over an improperly tightened bus bar — now reaching the Ioniq 9 — shows how a torque-spec problem at a single high-current joint becomes a fire-risk campaign, and why the remedy can escalate to replacing the battery system.
Recall Report
An improperly grounded connection inside the High Voltage Distribution Box can cause a loss of drive power. The fix may mean replacing the entire battery pack — a reminder that in high-voltage architecture, grounding is a load-bearing detail.
Recall Report
A recall over software that 'may fail to correctly identify a lead vehicle' is a recall about the hardest unsolved problem in driver assistance — and a reminder that the operational design domain is defined by what the perception stack can confidently see.
Recall Report
When a computer's circuit board can short and kill the rearview image, an over-the-air patch is only half the remedy — the rest is hardware. Tesla's FMVSS-111 recall shows where the software-defined vehicle still meets the soldering iron.
Recall Report
A single OTA-fixable defect — a tire-pressure warning lamp that fails to stay lit between drive cycles — pulled Cybertruck, Model 3 and Model Y vehicles into a federal noncompliance recall. The engineering lesson is about state, not sensors.
Recall Report
Warning lights displayed in too small a font put millions of Teslas, including the Cybertruck, out of compliance with two federal brake standards. NHTSA recall 24V051000 is fixed entirely over the air.
Recall Report
Insufficiently insulated motor wires can short inside the rear drive units of GM's Ultium EVs, causing a loss of drive power. NHTSA recall 24V320000 spans five nameplates from one shared component.
Recall Report
BMW recalled certain 2024 i4 and i5 vehicles because high-voltage battery modules may carry insufficient weld seams that can overheat and risk fire. NHTSA recall 24V135000 traces a fire risk back to the factory floor.
