LG Energy Solution Michigan, the US branch of the world's leading electric-vehicle battery maker and the top battery-related patent holder globally, has selected Solve Intelligence as an AI platform to scale its in-house patent analysis.
With a global portfolio of more than 90,000 patents built over three decades of battery innovation, LG Energy Solution's US IP team needed tooling that could keep pace with high-volume invalidity, prior art, and freedom-to-operate work without compromising the precision the company's IP strategy depends on.
That requirement led the team to adopt Solve Intelligence following a hands-on evaluation of the leading AI patent tools throughout 2025 and 2026. The collaboration reflects a shared priority: giving expert practitioners leverage on the most analytically demanding parts of their work, at the scale a global battery leader requires.
Founded in December 2020 as a spin-off of LG Chem's battery business, LG Energy Solution is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, and manufactures advanced lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, energy storage systems (ESS), mobility, and IT applications. The company operates production sites across six countries (including Korea, the United States, Poland, and China) and supplies automakers such as General Motors, Tesla, Volkswagen, Hyundai, and Stellantis.
Behind that commercial scale sits one of the most valuable IP portfolios in the industry. LG Energy Solution is recognized as the world's top battery-related patent holder. The company has publicly leaned into “patent power,” treating its portfolio as a strategic and monetizable asset spanning cell chemistry, cell-to-pack architecture, battery management systems, and manufacturing processes. Managing and defending a portfolio of that breadth means a constant stream of invalidity analysis, prior art searching, and freedom-to-operate review; exactly the work Solve Intelligence is built to accelerate.
After testing Solve alongside other AI patent tools, LG Energy Solution’s US team highlighted several deciding factors:
The most intuitive platform evaluated: Across the tools the team sampled, Solve Intelligence stood out as the most intuitive to pick up and put to work. Practitioners were productive on real invalidity charts almost immediately.
“We have been impressed with Solve Intelligence’s capabilities, cost competitiveness, and ease of adoption for our team. With a portfolio of our size, securing strong, high-quality patents is critical. Solve Intelligence lets us pull and analyze file histories and examiner statistics, conduct quick prior art searches and landscaping analyses, and identify the strongest assets in our portfolio, all for a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time. The platform also supports our work with outside counsel. We strongly recommend Solve Intelligence for in-house patent teams.”
A.J. Sutton, Managing IP Counsel and Prosecution Part Leader, LG Energy Solution Michigan, Inc.
Built by patent practitioners: Solve Intelligence is built by patent practitioners for patent practitioners, keeping attorneys in control of every analysis while the platform handles the mechanical heavy lifting.
Parallel charting at scale: The team can launch multiple charts at once, let them run in the background, and return to review completed analyses.
Here are the ways LG Energy Solution's practitioners are putting Solve Intelligence's Charts product to work:
Invalidity & Prior Art Charting: The team uses Solve Intelligence to build invalidity and prior art charts across the portfolio, running multiple analyses in parallel and reviewing results as they complete.
Freedom-to-Operate: Solve Intelligence ships with out-of-the-box freedom-to-operate templates that map patent claims, with support and claim construction, against a product specification. The team can run one-to-one mappings or map multiple patents in a single chart, and templates are customizable to match specific FTO methodologies.
Prior Art Discovery: Starting from a product, Solve Intelligence runs an agentic search, surfaces the most relevant patents, non-patent literature, and links to the public record.
Customizable Claim Construction and Infringement Mapping: Claim construction instructions are fully editable. The team can apply a narrow interpretation in one column and a broader one in another, or narrow a specific claim term as they run analyses through Solve. This is particularly effective when identifying potential infringement positions.
LG Energy Solution's external prosecution counsel also works on Solve Intelligence, creating a shared platform and more consistent work product across the company's in-house team and the outside firms it relies on. The team validated Solve Intelligence's output by comparing it directly against a full validity and patentability analysis prepared by external counsel.
As a publicly traded company protecting highly competitive battery technology, data security was central to LG Energy Solution's evaluation. Solve Intelligence meets enterprise requirements through:
For more detail, see Solve Intelligence's data confidentiality approach.
"LG Energy Solution Michigan has one of the most sophisticated and strategically ambitious IP functions in the world, and its team is using AI exactly where it delivers the most leverage - high-volume invalidity, prior art, and freedom-to-operate analysis,"
said David Joo, Founding Member and Product & Partnerships Counsel at Solve Intelligence.
"We're proud to support their practitioners in protecting and defending a portfolio that sits at the center of the global energy transition."
LG Energy Solution Michigan joins hundreds of in-house IP teams using Solve Intelligence to streamline invalidity analysis, freedom-to-operate review, prior art searching, and prosecution.
To explore how Solve Intelligence can support your corporate IP function, contact our Partnerships team at partnerships@solveintelligence.com or request a demo.
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