Powering the Edge of Possibility: How MKS is Accelerating Innovation with Solve Intelligence

MKS has adopted a cutting-edge AI-powered tool by Solve Intelligence to transform patent drafting and analysis.

Powering the Edge of Possibility: How MKS is Accelerating Innovation with Solve Intelligence
"High-quality patents are essential to protecting the breakthroughs that define our future. With Solve Intelligence, our IP team can draft stronger applications faster, giving us more time to focus on the strategic decisions that matter most to our growth and leadership in the industry."

Kurt Eaton, Senior IP Counsel,MKS Inc.

About MKS Inc.

MKS Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI) enables technologies that transform our world. They deliver foundational technology solutions to leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing, electronics and packaging, and specialty industrial applications. MKS applies broad science and engineering capabilities to create instruments, subsystems, systems, process control solutions, and specialty chemicals technology that improve process performance, optimize productivity, and enable unique innovations for many of the world’s leading technology and industrial companies. Their solutions are critical to addressing the challenges of miniaturization and complexity in advanced device manufacturing by enabling increased power, speed, feature enhancement, and optimized connectivity. Their solutions are also critical to addressing ever-increasing performance requirements across a wide array of specialty industrial applications.Additional information can be found at www.mks.com. MKS has adopted a cutting-edge AI-powered tool by Solve Intelligence to transform patent drafting and analysis.

The deployment marks a major step forward in how MKS manages its growing patent portfolio. Solve Intelligence dramatically reduces the time spent drafting patent applications, enabling in-house counsel to shift their focus from routine writing tasks to higher-value strategic work — partnering closely with business leaders, product teams, and R&D to shape long-term IP strategy and protect the company’s most important innovations.

Key benefits already being realized include:

●     Significantly reduced drafting time — first drafts now completed in a — first drafts now completed in a fraction of the previous hours, freeing counsel for strategic collaboration.

●     Higher patent quality — improved consistency, stronger claims, and better technical descriptions that more accurately reflect the invention’s novelty and value.

●     Reduced reliance on others — allowing MKS to handle more of its patent work internally with greater speed, control, and cost efficiency.

For MKS Instruments, adoption of Solve Intelligence reflects a broader commitment to accelerating innovation, strengthening their competitive edge, and delivering greater value to their customers and shareholders.

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Key Insights

  • Today, Solve supports global IP teams deploying AI agents for large-scale tasks including search across millions of patent and non-patent literature, portfolio analysis on thousands of assets, and claim charting, focussed on transparent source-backed and auditable outputs.
  • Every IP leader in the room had either rolled out an AI patent platform or was in active procurement.
  • Successful AI implementation requires collaboration and trusted long-term partnerships between IP teams, vendors, and outside counsel.
  • Solve CEO Chris Parsonson expects per-user token usage to grow more than 1000x over the next 12 months.