Cobot Digital Twin / Virtual Commissioning Patent Snapshot
The cobot digital twin and virtual commissioning space remains a very early-stage, highly concentrated niche, with Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC holding the dominant position among a small set of largely independent filers. Activity is modest and has eased from a 2020 peak, signalling that the field is still forming rather than maturing under sustained competitive pressure.
Baker Hughes leads a fragmented but concentrated early-stage field
Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC is the clear leader, accounting for 3 of the ranked patent records and anchoring the top of a ten-applicant list that otherwise consists of single-record holders — mostly Indian engineering institutions and individual inventors.
The top five filers collectively hold 58% of the combined total among the ranked applicants visible in this query, a high concentration figure for such a small corpus, indicating that no broad competitive pack has yet formed.
| # | Applicant | Patent records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC | 3 | |
| 2 | NOIDA INST OF ENG & TECH | 1 | |
| 3 | JIS College of Engineering | 1 | |
| 4 | Mr. Jigar D. Pandya | 1 | |
| 5 | Prof. (Dr.) Rajnee Shukla | 1 | |
| 6 | Dr. Sambhavi Shukla | 1 | |
| 7 | Ms. Poonam D. Chakravarty | 1 | |
| 8 | Dr. Bhavesh K. Lukka | 1 | |
| 9 | St. Martin’s Engineering College | 1 | |
| 10 | Dr. Ritu Pahwa | 1 |
Baker Hughes’s position, grounded in manipulator/robot and business-process data classes, suggests the company is staking an early industrial claim; the remaining filers appear to be exploratory academic or individual efforts rather than coordinated commercial programs.
Filings from 2024 onward are subject to publication lag and should be treated as incomplete; the true recent activity level may be higher than current counts suggest. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
Sporadic filing activity and a broad but thin technology mix
The annual trend and technology composition charts together reveal a field that has produced only isolated filing bursts, with no visible technology branch commanding sustained depth.
Annual filing trend
Filings first appeared in 2020, peaked in that year, fell to near-zero through 2022–2023, and show a modest uptick in 2025. The 2025 figure and especially 2026 should be read cautiously given publication lag; the lifecycle evidence characterises the field as easing from its 2020 peak rather than in sustained growth.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
B25J (Manipulators & robots) and G06Q (Business, commerce & admin data processing) are jointly the most represented IPC classes, each appearing in 5 patent records, followed by G05B (Control & regulating systems) and G06N (AI-based computing) at 3 records each. H04L and H04W (communications) appear at 2 records each, while B64C and H01J are sparse outliers at 1 record each.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaHighly cited patent families surfaced by the query
Citation-heavy patent families returned by the query. Use this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents.
Autonomous fluid management using fluid digital tw…
Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes determining, using a digital twin, a task to be performed based at least in part on real-time data. The method further includes initiating at least one of a drone, a collaborative robot, or a warehouse system to perform the task. (excerpt from the patent abstract)
| # | Patent | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autonomous fluid management using fluid digital tw… | 5 |
Ranked by total forward citations. Citation counts favour older and broadly cited patent families, and broad or adjacent patents may appear when they match the search scope. Treat this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents. Some patent titles may be shown in their original, non-English language where an accurate translation could not be guaranteed.
Assignee snapshot from the current evidence set
The applicants below are visible in this query result. Because the evidence set is relatively small, read this section as a directional snapshot rather than a full competitive ranking.
Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
Baker Hughes holds 3 patent records — the largest position in the corpus — focused on manipulator/robot systems (B25J 9), aeroplanes & helicopters (B64C 39), and business-process data processing (G06Q 10). The applicant momentum data does not show a recent-period trend figure for Baker Hughes separately, but its US and PCT filings give it the broadest jurisdictional reach of any filer in scope.
patent records: 3Prof (Dr) Rajnee Shukla
Prof (Dr) Rajnee Shukla holds 1 patent record with a technology focus spanning G05B 23 (control & regulating systems), G06N 20 (AI-based computing), and G06Q 10 (business-process data processing). Applicant momentum classifies this filer as a new entrant (trend: new entrant), indicating the record was filed in the recent window with no prior-period baseline.
patent records: 1Frequently asked questions
The evidence covers 7 patent families in scope globally. This is a very small corpus, reflecting the early-stage nature of the field.
Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC leads with 3 patent records, the largest position among the ten named applicants. All other filers hold a single record each.
India accounts for 4 patent records — the most of any jurisdiction — followed by the United States with 2 records and one PCT application. Indian filings are dominated by academic institutions and individual inventors, while the US records belong to Baker Hughes.
B25J (Manipulators & robots) and G06Q (Business, commerce & admin data processing) each appear in 5 patent records, making them jointly the most represented IPC classes. G05B (Control & regulating systems) and G06N (AI-based computing) follow at 3 records each.
The lifecycle evidence classifies the field as in decline, with annual filings easing back from a 2020 peak. However, the corpus is so small that a few new filings in any year could shift the trend materially. Filings from 2024–2025 are also subject to publication lag and may be under-counted.
No co-applicant filings are recorded in the evidence. Every patent in scope was filed by a single applicant, indicating that cross-institution or industry-academic partnerships have not yet appeared at the patent level in this niche.
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