Technology Hotbed · Materials & Nanotech
advanced steel alloys
Momentum: ▲ Rising
Across fully-published filing years — the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
34
Patents
0
Startups matched
9
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records — see methodology. Methodology
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
No matched startups have surfaced a state for this technology yet — coverage is patent-only.
Filing momentum
Filings by year — recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 4 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 | 6 |
| 2025 | 13 | 12 |
| 2026partial | 2 | 2 |
Patents publish ~18 months after they're filed, so the current year is always incomplete. The Rising / Steady / Cooling signal ignores it and compares only fully-published years — read a dip in the latest year as data still coming in, not a decline.
Who's filing
Indian companies lead — institutes & foreign kept separate
Educational institutes (2) — ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.