Pressure & Force Sensor Patents: Top Companies, Trends 2026
Pressure, Force & Strain Sensor Patents: Who Leads and Where Filing Is Heading
Concentration is modest at the top. the leading assignee holds 141 records, but the top 5 combine for only 22.5% of the 1,602 records in scope — this is not a field locked up by one player. Filings peaked at 127 in 2017. Using only complete years, the 100 filings recorded in 2021 dropped to 42 by 2024 — a -58% move. The 2025 and 2026 counts (down to 6 by 2026) should be read as still-incomplete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so recent-year totals will keep rising as later filings publish.
- 1NALU MEDICAL INC8.8%
- 2ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC5.6%
- 3FRACTYL HEALTH INC4.0%
- 4MICROTECH MEDICAL TECH2.5%
- 53M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES CO1.7%
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- 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 are the leading patent holders in pressure and force sensor technology?
The assignee ranking for this dataset covers 100 companies, with the leading filer holding 141 records against a field total of 1,602. The top 5 combined account for 22.5% of all records, and the gap narrows quickly after the leader — fifth place holds 27 records and tenth place holds 21. This points to one clear leader followed by a competitive mid-tier rather than a small cartel controlling the space, so a competitive review should look well beyond the single top name.
Is patent filing in pressure and force sensors growing or shrinking?
Filing peaked in 2017 at 127 records and has declined since on the last complete years available, falling from 100 in 2021 to 42 in 2024 — a -58% move over that span. The 2025 and 2026 figures are lower still but should not be read as continuing that decline, because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months and those years are still filling in. A fair read is that filing activity cooled markedly from its 2017 high, with the post-2024 trajectory not yet resolved.
What technology areas dominate pressure and force sensor patents?
A61B (diagnosis and surgery) is the largest single IPC subclass at 29.8% of the 1,602 records, ahead of A61N (electrotherapy, 13.0%) and G01L (force and pressure measurement itself, 12.3%). Because a single record can carry several IPC classes, these shares overlap and add to more than 100% of the record total. The pattern shows that most patenting activity sits at the application layer — clinical, control or consumer-device use of a pressure or force signal — rather than in sensor transducer design alone.
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 Pressure, Force & Strain Sensors 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.