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Smart Waste Management

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.

296

Patents

6

Startups matched

2

Foreign filers

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

Startups working on smart waste management

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
Uttar Pradesh
10
Haryana
4
Bihar
4
Jharkhand
3
Madhya Pradesh
3
Uttarakhand
3
Tamil Nadu
3
Punjab
3
Andhra Pradesh
2
Maharashtra
2
Karnataka
1

See smart waste management 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
2022321
2023550
2024740
2025850
2026partial420

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 (2)

Top inventors in this technology

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

Briefings on this technology