Mesodyne Patents

Patent portfolio assigned to Mesodyne (verified via public assignee records). MIT spinout (Somerville, MA) making patented LightCell thermophotovoltaic power generator. Customers are government/defense via SBIR/STTR (US Army, AFWERX/USAF) - treated as paying contracts. Competitors thin: CBInsights lists Beetron plus legacy military batteries (BA-5590/BB-2590); only Beetron is a named company. Press repeatedly calls LightCell 'patented' so has_patents=true; exact count not verifiable via Google Patents (assignee page returned 503).