Logistics Optimization Patents: Top Companies & Filing Trends 2026
Logistics Optimization Patents: Who Leads and Where Filing Is Heading
82.1% concentration. The top 5 of 173 records in scope, 142 filings, sit with a small group of assignees, leaving a long tail of single- or few-filing entrants. Annual filings moved from a single record in 2017 to a peak of 60 in 2023, with the 2021-2024 span alone showing filings rise from 3 to 18 — a +500% increase over three years. 2025 and 2026 figures will continue to fill in as later-filed applications publish.
- 1STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC112
- 2MANUGISTICS10
- 3EMERALD LAKE HILLS LLC9
- 4BLUE YONDER GROUP INC7
- 5JANSSEN BIOTECH INC4
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- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
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Common questions on the logistics optimization patent landscape
Who holds the most patents in logistics optimization?
One assignee leads with 112 of the 173 records in scope, well ahead of the rest of the field; fifth place holds only 4 records and tenth place 2. The top 5 assignees together account for 82.1% of all records, and the top 10 for 88.4%, so the ranking is heavily front-loaded before a long tail of 56 total ranked companies with narrow filing counts. That gap between the leader and everyone else is the single clearest signal in this dataset.
How fast is patent filing growing in logistics optimization?
Filings rose from 3 in 2021 to 18 in 2024, a +500% increase over that three-year span, with a peak year of 60 records in 2023. 2024 is the most recent year the dataset treats as reasonably complete, because publication typically lags filing by about 18 months. Figures for 2025 and 2026 will keep rising as later applications publish, so they should not be read as a slowdown.
What technologies dominate logistics optimization patents?
G06Q, covering business, commerce and administrative data processing, appears in 74.0% of the 173 records, making optimization and planning logic the dominant claim type. AI-model computing (G06N) follows at 33.5% and general digital data processing (G06F) at 30.1%, with physical handling technologies like manipulators and robots (B25J, 16.2%) and non-electric control (G05D, 13.3%) representing the hardware side. Because a single record can carry several IPC classes, these shares add up to more than 100% of the record base.
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 Logistics Optimization Patent Landscape covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-08-31. 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.