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Natural Language Processing

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.

221

Patents

135

Startups matched

26

Foreign filers

Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology

Startups working on natural language processing

Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology

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

Startups by state
StateStartups mapped
Delhi
11
Bihar
4
Uttar Pradesh
4
Haryana
4
Rajasthan
3
Jharkhand
3
Tamil Nadu
3
Karnataka
2
Uttarakhand
1
Himachal Pradesh
1
Madhya Pradesh
1
Odisha
1

See natural language processing 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

Filings by year
YearFilingsForeign
20222711
2023399
2024487
2025744
2026partial252

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 (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
Foreign filers (6)

Top inventors in this technology

The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.

Briefings on this technology