Technology Hotbed · Agri & Food
herbicide formulation
Momentum: ▼ Cooling
Across fully-published filing years — the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
58
Patents
0
Startups matched
16
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 | 17 | 4 |
| 2023 | 14 | 3 |
| 2024 | 15 | 4 |
| 2025 | 9 | 6 |
| 2026partial | 3 | 3 |
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
- UPL LIMITEDIN · 8
- COROMANDEL INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDIN · 4
- RAJDHANI PETROCHEMICALS PRIVATE LIMITEDIN · 3
- LR RESEARCH LABORATORIES PRIVATE LIMITEDIN · 2
- NAVIN NATHIN · 2
- Sumitomo Chemical India Ltd.IN · 2
Educational institutes (1) — 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.