NIR Process Monitoring Patents: Who Leads, Where the Gaps Are 2026
NIR Process Monitoring Signal Processing Patents: Filing Trends and Leaders
Concentrated but not closed. the top 5 of 74 ranked assignees hold 39.7% of all 189 records, yet the tenth-ranked filer has only 6 — leaving room for new entrants below the leaders. Filings ran from 8 in 2017 to a peak of 17 in 2022, then to 9 in 2026 (partial). The 2021-to-2024 span shows +14% growth (7 to 8), the most recent period that can be read as complete before publication lag understates later years.
- 1SENSYS MEDICAL INC20
- 2ZYOMED HLDG INC17
- 3INSTR METRICS INC14
- 4FPS FOOD PROCESSING SYST BV12
- 5TRINAMIX GMBH12
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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 this landscape
Who holds the most NIR process monitoring signal processing patents?
Among the 74 ranked assignees, the leader holds 20 records, with a steep drop to 12 at fifth place and 6 at tenth. The top 5 assignees together account for 39.7% of all 189 records in scope, and the top 10 account for 61.4% — meaning over a third of the field is held by assignees outside the top 10. This is a moderately concentrated field rather than a field dominated by one or two firms.
Is patent filing in NIR process monitoring growing or slowing down?
Filings grew 14% from 2021 (7 records) to 2024 (8 records), with a peak of 17 in 2022, and 2024 is the most recent year that can be treated as complete. Because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, the lower counts shown for 2025 and 2026 reflect that lag rather than an actual slowdown. Anyone reading the most recent one to two years of the trend chart should treat those figures as a floor.
What technology areas dominate NIR signal processing patents?
Within the 189 records in scope, A61B (diagnosis and surgery) covers 39.2% and G01J (radiation and light measurement) covers 28.0%, making optical measurement and biomedical application the two largest footprints. Explicitly computational classes are smaller: G06F (electric digital data processing) sits at 6.3% and G16C (computational chemistry) at 5.3%. Because a single record can carry multiple IPC classes, these shares add up to more than 100% 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 NIR Process Monitoring Signal Processing 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.