Company Analysis

QuantumScape Corporation (QS)

Nasdaq: QS · Miscellaneous Electrical Machinery, Equipment & Supplies · San Jose, CA · filing with the SEC since 2020
Grade5.4
◀ Past 4.1● Present 5.9▶ Future 6.2
6 est.

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

129 patents granted to the 4 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to QuantumScape Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
129
129 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
9
Against 21 in 2024 and 16 in 2023
Applications published
180
17 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
4
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy37
Materials, metallurgy22
Transport6
Digital communication3
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
QuantumScape Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
90 published
QuantumScape Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
62 granted
16 published
QuantumScape Battery, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
74 published
QuantumScape Battery, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
67 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 25, 202512,479,771Processes and materials for casting and sintering green garnet thin filmsMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Nov 11, 202512,469,876High green density ceramics for batteryMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Aug 5, 202512,378,164Rapid thermal processing methods and apparatusMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Jul 1, 202512,347,863Solid state catholyte or electrolyte for energy storage devicesElectrical machinery, apparatus, energyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
May 27, 202512,311,805Thermal management system for vehicles with an electric powertrainTransportQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
May 27, 202512,311,804Battery thermal management system and methods of useDigital communicationQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Mar 18, 202512,252,032Battery control systemsTransportQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Mar 4, 202512,240,143Rapid ceramic processing techniques and equipmentMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Feb 25, 202512,237,475Lithium-stuffed garnet electrolytes with a reduced surface defect density and methods of making and using the sameElectrical machinery, apparatus, energyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Nov 12, 202412,142,727Translucent and transparent separatorsElectrical machinery, apparatus, energyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 27, 20252025/0360839THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES WITH A CABIN CLIMATE CONTROL MODULETransportQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Nov 27, 20252025/0360653CENTERLESS SINTERING SETTERSMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Nov 13, 20252025/0349821CALENDERED CATHODE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOFElectrical machinery, apparatus, energyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Sep 11, 20252025/0286124GARNET MATERIALS FOR LI SECONDARY BATTERIES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING GARNET MATERIALSMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Jul 31, 20252025/0246616CATHODE MATERIALS HAVING OXIDE SURFACE SPECIESElectrical machinery, apparatus, energyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Jun 12, 20252025/0187228RAPID CERAMIC PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENTMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
Jun 5, 20252025/0178968PROCESSES AND MATERIALS FOR CASTING AND SINTERING GREEN GARNET THIN FILMSMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
May 29, 20252025/0174630SOLVENT-LESS CATHODE COMPOSITION AND PROCESS FOR MAKINGElectrical machinery, apparatus, energyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
May 29, 20252025/0172340LITHIUM STUFFED GARNET SETTER PLATES FOR SOLID ELECTROLYTE FABRICATIONMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
May 22, 20252025/0164189LITHIUM STUFFED GARNET SETTER PLATES FOR SOLID ELECTROLYTE FABRICATIONMaterials, metallurgyQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Materials, metallurgy 16 · Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy 15 · Transport 2.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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