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Open Energy Patent Research

Systematic analysis of 768 publicly available energy device patents. Identifying common principles, topologies, and materials among devices claiming high efficiency or unconventional energy conversion.

768Patents Analyzed
10Patterns Identified
25+Experiments Defined
6Technology Categories
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Patent Landscape

768 patents cataloged across six technology categories from USPTO, EPO, and WIPO databases.

Electromagnetic
247 patents
32%
Electrochemical
128 patents
17%
LENR
118 patents
15%
Solid-State
100 patents
13%
Plasma
100 patents
13%
Thermodynamic
75 patents
10%

The Real Signal

An early keyword pass suggested a single “non-linear + resonance + pulsed” recipe — but a mechanism-level re-read of the full claims found that combination in only 13 of 766 patents. The real signal isn't one recipe: it's a handful of mechanism templates that unrelated inventors keep arriving at independently.

1

Casimir / Ambient-EM → DC

Asymmetric vacuum-fluctuation cavities feeding a rectifying junction. Reached independently by 3+ unrelated inventors.

2

Resonant Water Dissociation

Tuning electrical or acoustic resonance to split water below the Faraday minimum. US, Russia, Chile, Japan — 30 years, no shared citations.

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3

Back-EMF Recovery Loops

Capturing the inductive-collapse spike to "close the loop." Shades continuously into legitimate engineering.

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4

Metal-Hydride LENR

A hydrogen-loaded Ni or Pd lattice "rung" by current, magnetic, acoustic, or THz stimulation for claimed excess heat.

Why convergence matters: a lone over-unity claim is noise. The same mechanism reached independently by inventors across decades and countries — with no shared citations — is a falsifiable target worth a cheap bench test. Roughly 101 of 768 patents assert a genuinely anomalous effect, and these clusters are where they concentrate.

The Research

All findings published as open journal entries. No patents, no secrets.

Patents

768 patent entries across electromagnetic generators, electrochemical cells, LENR, plasma devices, solid-state converters, and thermodynamic engines. Each entry includes patent number, inventor, abstract, and key features.

The Experiments

29 actionable experiments grouped into constellations by pattern. Complete them in any order — light up the sky as you participate. Designed for commodity parts at $50-500 per experiment.

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How This Works

01

Catalog

Systematically search USPTO, EPO, and WIPO for energy device patents claiming unconventional efficiency. Extract metadata, abstracts, and technical features into a structured database.

02

Analyze

Apply NLP keyword analysis, feature co-occurrence mapping, and citation network analysis to identify which technical approaches keep appearing together across independent inventors.

03

Synthesize

Convert identified patterns into reproducible experiments with commodity parts, rigorous measurement protocols, and clear success criteria. Publish everything — including negative results.

04

Replicate

Build and test. Share results openly. Seek 50+ independent confirmations before drawing conclusions. Community replication is the gold standard.

All Findings Published Openly

No patents. No secrets. No paywalls. Every patent analysis, every identified pattern, every experiment protocol, and every test result is published for anyone to use, verify, and build upon.

RigorousCorrect power measurement for pulsed systems. Control experiments. Multiple independent methods.
HonestWe publish negative results too. No cherry-picking. The data speaks for itself.
OpenCERN-OHL-S v2 for hardware. Everything designed for community replication.
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