Technology Hotbed · Fintech & Consumer
Retail Automation
Data as of 12 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: ▲ Rising
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
46
Patents
0
Startups matched
1
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Chandigarh | 1 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 |
| Maharashtra | 1 |
| Tamil Nadu | 1 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 |
See retail automation 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 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 11 | 0 |
| 2024 | 11 | 1 |
| 2025 | 18 | 0 |
| 2026partial | 4 | 0 |
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
- ASHA KIRAN SIKHAKOLLIIN · 1
- DURGA DEETYA SIKHAKOLLIIN · 1
- SRINIVASA SURESH SIKHAKOLLIIN · 1
- AMIN MADHUSHREEIN · 1
- ANKIT PANDEIN · 1
- ASHWINI GANESH MAHAJANIN · 1
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
Foreign filers (1)
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.