Technology Hotbed · Mobility & Transport
Automotive Lighting
Data as of 11 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: ▲ Rising
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
110
Patents
2
Startups matched
20
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on automotive lighting
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
BlueBinaries Engineering and Solutions Pvt Ltd
Chennai · Mobility & Transport
Dcontour Litetech Private Limited
Jaipur · Mobility & Transport
A sample of matched deep-tech startups - Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Deep-tech basis: site-backed (own website fetched and read), IP-backed (patent or design filed in its own name), web-backed (described elsewhere on the open web), registry only (registry description alone). How this is decided
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu | 2 |
| Rajasthan | 1 |
See automotive lighting on the India map → Where its patents are filed, state by state and city by city, with companies, institutes and individual inventors apart.
Filing momentum
Filings by year - recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 14 | 5 |
| 2023 | 11 | 5 |
| 2024 | 29 | 13 |
| 2025 | 36 | 32 |
| 2026partial | 12 | 11 |
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
- UNO MINDAIN · 7
- TVS MOTORIN · 6
- LUMAX INDUSTRIESIN · 5
- VARROC ENGINEERINGIN · 4
- HERO MOTOCORPIN · 3
- VALEO INDIAIN · 2
Educational institutes (5) - 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.