Tekcapital said its portfolio company Vesari has filed a twelfth US patent application, extending the intellectual property behind its planned geothermal-powered AI data centre business.
The AIM-listed intellectual property investment group said the latest application, filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on 13 August and assigned to Vesari, covers a method of using the operational data from laser-based satellite communications links as a network of atmospheric sensors to help anticipate and manage interference and keep high-bandwidth links resilient.
It takes Vesari’s portfolio to twelve non-provisional US patent applications, all of which remain pending.
Louis Castro, Tekcapital Director, said: “Vesari continues to build a robust intellectual property foundation. This twelfth application extends the portfolio into predictive optical communications, the high-bandwidth, satellite-based data-transmission layer that we believe will be essential to distributing AI compute across Vesari’s future geothermal-powered campuses.
“We are pleased with the pace at which Vesari is strengthening its IP position and look forward to updating shareholders as the technology and the Patent Portfolio continue to progress.”
Vesari is developing technology for a behind-the-meter, geothermal-powered campus designed to supply round-the-clock, carbon-free computing power for AI, independent of the public grid.
Power is proving to be the major bottleneck for the AI boom, with many data centre projects struggling to secure the grid connections they need. Should Vesari be successful, they will alleviate the need for grid connections to power their AI data centres.