Connected Wearable / Textile Antenna Patent Snapshot
The connected wearable and textile antenna patent corpus is very small and highly fragmented, with no single applicant holding more than one patent record and India dominating the filing geography. Activity is plateauing at a low baseline, signalling an early-stage field where the formal IP footprint remains thin relative to the research interest the domain attracts.
A highly fragmented field with no dominant institutional leader
The ranked applicant list is maximally dispersed: every filer in the top seven holds exactly one patent record, and no single entity has established a commanding portfolio. Varanasi Sastry L N appears first in the ranking by virtue of alphabetical tie-breaking, not by volume advantage.
The top five filers account for 71% of the ranked applicants visible in this query’ combined total, a concentration figure that is high in percentage terms but reflects an extremely small absolute base rather than genuine oligopoly power. The field lacks a clear institutional anchor.
| # | Applicant | Patent records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Varanasi Sastry L N | 1 | |
| 2 | Sandeep Ram D | 1 | |
| 3 | Florida International University | 1 | |
| 4 | Vellore Institute of Technology | 1 | |
| 5 | Penjarla Naveen Kumar | 1 | |
| 6 | Sekhar Chandra K | 1 | |
| 7 | Shanthipriya C H | 1 |
The absence of major corporations in the ranking suggests that commercial players either have not yet prioritised formal IP protection in this sub-domain or are protecting related inventions under broader antenna or wearable electronics categories. This creates observable entry space for organised R&D programmes.
The most recent filing periods are subject to standard patent publication lag of 18–24 months, so apparent activity in 2025–2026 is likely under-counted and should be interpreted cautiously. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
Low-volume activity with a medical-diagnostic and antenna-design technology split
The annual filing trend and the IPC technology composition together characterise a nascent field where the handful of published records are split between antenna engineering and body-worn medical diagnostics.
Annual filing trend
Filing activity was absent from 2017 through 2020, produced a single record in 2021, then showed single-record increments in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The lifecycle evidence indicates annual volume has plateaued near its modest peak. The 2025 and 2026 data points are subject to publication lag and are likely undercounts of actual recent filing activity.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
The two most represented IPC classes are A61B (Diagnosis and Surgery) and H01Q (Antennas), each with two patent records, confirming that current work bridges antenna RF engineering and body-worn health monitoring. Adjacent classes including A41D (Outerwear and Garments), H04B (Transmission), and H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) each hold a single record, indicating that garment integration and wireless protocol layers remain under-represented in the formal IP record.
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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.
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Systems and methods for a low-cost smart textile electronic (tex-tronic) useful for wound healing assessment are provided. Data collection can be accomplished by reflection of the modulated wound-data to an interrogator. The RF modulation of the data can be done by a textile-based voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that takes the electric signal provided… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
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.
Varanasi Sastry L N
Holds 1 patent record and is classified as a new entrant with momentum trend marked as new entrant. Technology focus spans outerwear and garments (A41D 1), diagnosis and surgery (A61B 5), and electric digital data processing (G06F 1), pointing to a body-worn health-monitoring orientation. Position as ranked leader reflects the field’s maximum fragmentation rather than portfolio depth.
patent records: 1Sandeep Ram D
Holds 1 patent record with a new entrant momentum trajectory. Technology emphasis is squarely in antenna engineering — IPC codes H01Q 1, H01Q 5, and H01Q 13 — distinguishing this filer from the health-monitoring cluster and covering multi-band and wideband antenna design relevant to wearable RF connectivity. This RF-engineering focus is the most directly relevant to textile antenna integration.
patent records: 1Frequently asked questions
There are 4 patent families in scope for this landscape.
India leads with 3 patent records, followed by the United States with 1. No other jurisdictions appear in the evidence.
The ranked applicants include Varanasi Sastry L N, Sandeep Ram D, Florida International University, Vellore Institute of Technology, Penjarla Naveen Kumar, Sekhar Chandra K, and Shanthipriya C H, each holding one patent record.
The evidence classifies the field as Maturity, with annual filings having plateaued near their modest peak and zero recent-window growth recorded.
No co-applicant filings are recorded in the evidence. All current filers appear to be working independently.
A61B (Diagnosis and Surgery) and H01Q (Antennas) each appear in two patent records, making them the visible IPC classes. A41D (Outerwear and Garments), H04B (Transmission), H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), H02N, G06F, A61F, and B24B each appear in one record.
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