Intellectual property
Patents and trademarks
The TRS family, SafeCASE, carbon-fiber thermal interfaces, NASA-licensed test gear, and the KULR ONE house marks. Grants first, then the names on the packs.
USPTO grants
Patents
Issued numbers open on Google Patents. Licensed NASA gear and DoT permits sit in their own families so they don’t get counted as owned grants.
- Thermal Runaway ShieldownedUS 10,147,921 B2 · 2018-12-04
System, method, and apparatus for battery protection
First issued TRS grant. A sleeve around individual cells that passively pulls heat of a failed cell away from neighbors and douses the zone with a cooling / fire-prevention liquid.
Open grant - Thermal Runaway ShieldownedUS 11,018,397 B2 · 2021-05-25
Risk minimization of fires and explosions in lithium-ion battery packs
Third TRS grant. Covers a flexible thermal runaway shield for serially connected cells — the architecture behind Hydra TRS and later SafeCASE.
Open grant - SafeCASEownedUS 11,502,352 B2 · 2022-11-15
Lithium-ion battery storage and transportation solution
Fourth TRS-family patent. Underpins SafeCASE, the DoT-permitted storage and transport system for packs up to 2.5 kWh — including NASA ISS battery handling heritage.
Open grant - Carbon fiber TIMownedUS 10,734,302 B2 · 2020-08-04
Compressible carbon-fiber thermal interface material
High-performance compressible TIM aimed at dense electronics and 5G thermal paths. Same fiber family as the NASA-derived heat-spreading work.
Open grant - Carbon fiber TIMownedUS 9,261,312 B2 · 2016-02-16
Carbon fiber thermal interface for cooling module assembly
Heritage carbon-fiber thermal interface. The fiber architecture later licensed into nuclear-cathode and high-density electronics cooling, then into KULR packs.
Open grant - NASA licensedlicensedNASA ISC device · Licensed
Internal short-circuit device for lithium-ion safety testing
KULR licensed NASA’s internal short-circuit (ISC) trigger so pack makers can test thermal-runaway behavior on demand. Sold as a safety-testing tool alongside TRS.
Open grant - SafeCASEpermitDoT special permits · 2019–2022
Trio of DoT special permits for SafeCASE transport
DoT special permits covering prototype, damaged/defective/recalled, and end-of-life lithium-ion packs in SafeCASE — the same architecture NASA used to store batteries on ISS.
Open grant
House and product marks
Trademarks
Names in commercial use across packs, IR, and the Texas forge. Status is operating use, not a live TSDR scrape — the house mark and KULR ONE family are the ones on the boxes.
- In use
KULR
House mark · energy systems
Parent brand on NYSE American. Used across packs, IR, and the Texas forge.
- In use
KULR ONE
Battery architecture
The platform architecture. Air, Space, MAX, and custom packs all sit on KULR ONE.
- In use
KULR ONE AIR
UAS / e-aviation packs
High-energy unmanned packs. Amprius + Molicel cell partners. K1-Air reference design.
- In use
KULR ONE SPACE
Space-qualified packs
NASA-standard K1S systems. Argo orbital mission and Icarus JOY ISS free-flyer.
- In use
KULR ONE MAX
High-capacity packs
Highest-energy KULR ONE variant on the current product board.
- In use
K1A-FLIGHT
Flight-weight UAS packs
Flight-weight Air packs. Titan Dynamics endurance record flew on K1A-FLIGHT with Factorial cells.
- In use
SAFECASE
Battery storage / transport
DoT-permitted cases using TRS. NASA ISS heritage for lithium-ion storage in orbit.
- In use
THERMAL RUNAWAY SHIELD
Passive cell isolation
The TRS product name. Carbon fiber + phase-change sleeve around individual cells.
- In use
HYDRA TRS
TRS product line
Commercial TRS assemblies for multi-cell packs. Same family as the 2021 grant.
- House use
FORGE
Texas production sites
Forge-1 HQ / R&D and Forge-2 production language around Webster, Texas.