Technology Hotbed · Agri & Food
food processing equipment
Momentum: — Steady
Across fully-published filing years — the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
74
Patents
3
Startups matched
15
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records — see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on food processing equipment
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
GREENOVATIVE FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED
Ernakulam · Agri & Food
HIGGSFLEET INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Pune · Robotics & Industrial Automation
STEAMTECH INNOVATIVE MACHINERY PRIVATE LIMITED
Rajkot · Agri & Food
A sample of matched deep-tech startups — Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records — see methodology. Methodology
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 2 |
| Gujarat | 1 |
| Kerala | 1 |
Filing momentum
Filings by year — recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 17 | 7 |
| 2023 | 19 | 2 |
| 2024 | 22 | 2 |
| 2025 | 13 | 3 |
| 2026partial | 3 | 1 |
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
- ELGI ULTRA PRIVATE LIMITED.IN · 2
- THAHIR M VIN · 1
- A.ALLWYN SUNDARRAJIN · 1
- ABDUL MONIMIN · 1
- ABHNAV K TIN · 1
- Aditya College of Engineering and Technology (A)IN · 1
Educational institutes (6) — 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.