Innovation in Decarbonisation
Reading innovation directly from the patent record.
Bisfico has developed a stock-selection methodology built on the systematic reading of patents published worldwide — combining natural language processing, AI and machine learning to identify leaders in specific technologies across defined themes.
The method
From the patent record to a shortlist of leaders.
Define the technologies
Identify the key technologies that define a given theme.
Read the patents
The global patent record, sourced from Patsnap and read through our proprietary query and aggregation process.
Identify the leaders
Rank companies by their measured capacity to innovate.
The universe
Three classes, twelve subclasses, some seventy technologies.
Capture
- Carbon capture & storage (8)
- Carbon offsets (3)
Efficiency Gains
- Buildings (4)
- Engines & motors (1)
- Energy distribution (7)
- Energy storage (12)
- Meat production (2)
- Low-carbon transport & mobility (11)
Energy Substitution
- Sustainable energy (12)
- Maritime transport (3)
- Transport electrification (1)
- Aviation & sustainable flight (3)
Every technology carries a written definition, an explicit in-scope and out-of-scope list, and its own patent query — the discipline described in our research notes. A parallel taxonomy covers ocean and water technologies.
Patent reading
Patsnap as the source, our process on top.
The raw material comes from Patsnap, a specialised patent intelligence platform covering the global patent record. Everything built on top of it is proprietary. For each technology we select the CPC and IPC classification codes that define its technical field, then refine the net with technology-specific keywords — inclusions that sharpen the scope, exclusions that strip out the false positives — before results are aggregated from individual patents up to companies and technologies.
The refinement is iterative: each query is tested against the patents it returns, tightened where it catches neighbouring fields, and re-audited whenever the classification systems are updated.
A sample
What tracking a technology actually means.
Point-source CO₂ capture
Capturing CO₂ from flue gas at industrial and power plants — amine scrubbing, solid sorbents, membranes.
Direct Air Capture
Removing CO₂ straight from ambient air with solid or liquid sorbents and electrochemical separation.
Gravity energy storage
Storing electricity as gravitational potential — raising and lowering large masses in towers, shafts and mines.
Virtual power plants
Aggregating rooftop solar, batteries and EV fleets into virtual power plants dispatched as grid resources.
Enteric methane reduction
Feed additives and microbial interventions that cut the methane produced by cattle and sheep digestion.
Sustainable aviation fuels
Bio-based and synthetic jet fuels — HEFA, Fischer–Tropsch, power-to-liquid — cutting lifecycle emissions.
Small modular reactors
Compact, modular nuclear fission — light-water SMRs, molten salt and high-temperature gas-cooled designs.
Tidal & wave power
Electricity from tides and waves — oscillating water columns, point absorbers, tidal turbines.
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