Industrial X-Ray CT Patents: Top Companies & Filing Trends 2026
Industrial X-Ray Computed Tomography Patents: Who Leads and Where the Claims Sit
Concentrated at the top. The top 5 assignees account for 60.9% of all 115 records in scope, and the top 10 reach 82.6% — this is a field with a short list of serious filers, not a fragmented one. Annual filings peaked at 29 in 2019, fell back, and have since grown from 2 in 2021 to 5 in 2024 — a 150% increase over that three-year span. Treat 2025 and 2026 as incomplete: publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, so the most recent bars will rise as more records surface.
- 1GENERAL ELECTRIC CO29
- 2DENTSPLY SIRONA INC17
- 3UNIVERSITAT STUTTGART8
- 4TRIPLE RING TECH8
- 5BAKER HUGHES CO8
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- The complete ranking, not just the top five
- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
- The most-cited records, and where claim space is still thin
Common questions about industrial X-ray CT patents
Who holds the most patents in industrial X-ray computed tomography?
The dataset’s ranked list covers 29 companies, and the leading assignee alone accounts for 29 of the 115 records in scope. The top 5 assignees combined hold 60.9% of all records, and the top 10 hold 82.6%, so filing activity is concentrated rather than spread evenly across the field. Anyone assessing freedom to operate should start by reviewing the claim scope of that top group before looking at the longer tail of single-filing entrants.
Is patent filing in industrial CT growing or slowing down?
Filings grew from 2 in 2021 to 5 in 2024, a 150% increase over that span, after an earlier peak of 29 filings in 2019. The apparent dip in the most recent one to two years is not a reliable signal of slowdown, because patent publication typically lags actual filing by around 18 months. The 2024 figure is the most recent year that can be treated as reasonably complete.
What technology areas dominate industrial CT patent claims?
Image data processing (IPC class G06T) appears in 51.3% of the 115 records, ahead of material analysis and testing (G01N) at 40.0%, meaning more than half of filings include a software reconstruction claim alongside or instead of a pure hardware claim. Smaller but active branches include additive manufacturing quality control (B33Y, 11.3%) and AI-based computing methods (G06N, 9.6%). Because a single record can carry multiple IPC classes, these percentages add up to more than 100% of the record total, and should not be read as mutually exclusive categories.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Industrial X-Ray Computed Tomography covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.