Precision Ag Field Trials & Validation Patent Snapshot
Patenting in precision agriculture field trials and validation is at a very early, nascent stage, concentrated entirely within India and led by individual inventors and academic institutions. The corpus of 8 patent families is too small to establish a dominant technology route, but activity emerged suddenly in 2025, signalling the earliest stages of organized innovation.
A nascent, India-centric field dominated by individual inventors and universities
The leading filer, Vaibhav Laxman Dhasal (Director), holds 2 patent families, placing first in a shallow ranking where every other applicant holds exactly 1 family. This is consistent with a pre-commercial, exploratory IP environment rather than a mature assignee snapshot.
The top five filers together account for 75% of the combined total across the ranked applicants visible in this query, indicating extreme concentration for a field of this size. The tier gap between rank 1 and the rest is minimal in absolute terms, meaning no single player commands a commanding structural lead.
| # | Applicant | Patent families | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vaibhav Laxman Dhasal (Director) | 2 | |
| 2 | Manipal University Jaipur | 1 | |
| 3 | Barhate Madhuri M | 1 | |
| 4 | Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai | 1 | |
| 5 | Vellore Institute of Technology | 1 | |
| 6 | Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun | 1 | |
| 7 | Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology | 1 |
The presence of multiple engineering universities — Manipal University Jaipur, Vellore Institute of Technology (Chennai), and Graphic Era Hill University (Dehradun) — as active filers suggests that foundational research, rather than commercial product development, currently drives IP creation in this space.
All filings are from 2025–2026 and are likely under-counted due to standard publication lag; the true volume of recent activity may be higher than the corpus currently reflects. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
Activity emerged sharply in 2025 across soil-working, AI, and data-processing branches
The filing trend and technology composition together reveal a field that did not exist in structured patent form before 2025 and that immediately spanned multiple technical disciplines.
Annual filing trend
Zero filings are recorded from 2017 through 2024; all 8 patent families appeared in 2025 and 2026. The 2025–2026 figures should be read as a floor, not a ceiling, given that many recent applications will not yet have published. The abrupt onset suggests these filings were triggered by a specific academic or institutional initiative rather than gradual commercial interest.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
Soil working in agriculture (A01B) is the most represented branch, reflecting that field-trial validation work centres on soil-level interventions. AI-based computing (G06N) and business/admin data processing (G06Q) appear with equal frequency, indicating that data pipelines and decision-support frameworks are integral to filed inventions. Horticulture (A01G), material analysis (G01N), and digital communications (H04L) follow, showing a broad multi-disciplinary footprint across only 8 families.
↗ 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.
An UAV-assisted system for real-time insecticide r…
The present invention provides a precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, and intelligent UAV-handheld hybrid systems. It integrates UAV-assisted sensing with a handheld probe deployment device, which includes adaptive microcontroller cooling and modular sensor cartridges, to monitor insecticide residues, soil nutrients, microbial activity, and… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
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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.
Vaibhav Laxman Dhasal (Director)
Holds 2 patent families, the largest individual share in the corpus. Technology emphasis spans soil working in agriculture (A01B), planting and sowing (A01C), and horticulture and forestry (A01G), suggesting a field-operations-oriented invention focus rather than a pure sensing or AI approach. Applicant momentum data is not available for this filer, so trajectory cannot be assessed.
families: 2Manipal University Jaipur
Holds 1 patent family with technology emphasis in soil working (A01B) combined with AI-based computing (G06N), indicating a data-driven validation methodology rather than hardware-centric approach. As a university filer, commercial licensing or spin-out activity would be the likely route to market impact. Momentum data is not available.
families: 1Frequently asked questions
The current evidence shows 8 patent families in scope. This is a very small corpus, and given that all filings are from 2025–2026, the count is likely under-represented due to publication lag.
Vaibhav Laxman Dhasal (Director) leads with 2 patent families, followed by Manipal University Jaipur, Barhate Madhuri M, Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai, Vellore Institute of Technology, Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun, and Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, each with 1 family.
India is the sole active jurisdiction — all 8 patent families are filed in India. No PCT, US, European, or Chinese filings are on record, leaving IP in other major markets entirely unclaimed.
Soil working in agriculture (A01B) is the most represented branch, followed by AI-based computing (G06N) and business/admin data processing (G06Q). Horticulture (A01G), material analysis (G01N), and digital communications (H04L) also appear in the corpus.
No filings are recorded from 2017 through 2024. All 8 patent families appeared in 2025 and 2026, indicating the field is at the very earliest stage of IP formation.
No co-applicant or collaborative filings are recorded in the evidence. Every filer — whether an individual inventor or a university — has filed independently, indicating the ecosystem has not yet formed research consortia or industry-academic partnerships around shared IP.
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