De-Ice Patents

Patent portfolio assigned to De-Ice (verified via public assignee records). US (Boston/MIT spinout) chemical-free GaN-based aircraft de-icing. Air Canada named as launch/first customer on De-Ice's own site. Press consistently describes a 'patented De-Ice system' and the company reports ~7 patents filed, so has_patents=true; however no specific patent could be confirmed under a De-Ice assignee on Google Patents, so count left at 0/unconfirmed. No direct competitors confirmed from a fetched page.