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Momentum: ▲ Rising
Across fully-published filing years — the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
38
Patents
0
Startups matched
8
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 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023 | 6 | 6 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 |
| 2025 | 11 | 8 |
| 2026partial | 8 | 8 |
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
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.