Vegetation Management Patents: Top Companies & Filing Trends 2026
Vegetation and right of way management patents: who is filing, and what they claim
Concentrated at the top. The leading assignee holds 14 of 65 records in scope, and the top 5 combined account for 60.0% of all 65 records. Filings rose from 2 in 2017 to a peak of 19 in 2022, then flattened — 2021 and 2024 both sit at 7, a 0% change over that span. 2025 and 2026 are still incomplete because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, so those bars will fill in as more records publish.
- 1GREEN GRID INC14
- 2MOVAFAGH ROOZBEH9
- 3SENTIENT TECH HLDG LLC6
- 4HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC5
- 5VIBRANT PLANET PBC5
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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 on this landscape
Who holds the most patents in vegetation and right-of-way management?
One assignee leads the ranked field with 14 of the 65 records in scope, well ahead of the fifth-ranked holder at 5 records. The top 5 assignees combined account for 60.0% of all 65 records, and the top 10 extend that to 84.6%, so the field has a clear leadership tier followed by a long tail of smaller filers. The ranking covers 23 companies total, not a top-50 or top-100 cut, so these shares describe the whole dataset returned.
Is patent filing in this space growing or slowing down?
Filings peaked at 19 in 2022 and have since returned to earlier levels, with 2021 and 2024 both recording 7 filings — a flat 0% change over that three-year span. The 2025 and 2026 figures are still incomplete because publication typically lags actual filing by around 18 months, so it would be premature to call this a slowdown. The more accurate read is a plateau following a filing surge, with the true 2025–2026 picture not yet visible.
What technology areas dominate vegetation management patent claims?
Business-process and decision-support claims under IPC class G06Q appear on 43.1% of the 65 records, more than any single sensing or AI-related class. Cable-installation claims (H02G) follow at 23.1%, with image and video recognition (G06V) at 21.5% and AI-based computing (G06N) at 20.0%. This mix shows that scheduling, prioritisation and alerting logic occupies as much or more claim space as the underlying lidar, radar or satellite sensing hardware.
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 Vegetation and Right of Way Management 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.