..... if you use the word gatekept while asking for vaulted patents it's the same in this instance. Even if publicly available the patent cannot be made or used by anyone who doesn't own the patent, so go look through them and see what you don't see in your everyday life, and those would be considered Vaulted.
Highly efficient solar panels with unique designs, Advanced energy storage systems, Next-generation water purification, a slew of medical patents as well among other things. But again you could easily search for patents not in use and see lists of thousands that aren't commercialized for whatever reason.
It expired in 2023. Now freely available for anyone to make and use.
(Note, however, that if there have been subsequent related improvements, you can’t necessarily incorporate them. But you can make anything and everything described in this patent.)
Remember this patents are only good as your relationship to the military, industrial, govermental complex. An thats exactly what has transpired with aero gel they make a small improvment often rediculously simple an you cant do any-thing with it.
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25
..... if you use the word gatekept while asking for vaulted patents it's the same in this instance. Even if publicly available the patent cannot be made or used by anyone who doesn't own the patent, so go look through them and see what you don't see in your everyday life, and those would be considered Vaulted.