Vehicle-to-Grid Agricultural Irrigation Patent Landscape
Vehicle-to-Grid Agricultural Irrigation Patent Landscape in 2026
The intersection of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology and agricultural irrigation is an embryonic space with a single patent family on record, filed by Toyota in 2024 and published in the United States. Competitive density is effectively zero, making this one of the most open adjacent branches within broader V2G and smart-agriculture patenting.
Toyota holds the only documented position in this nascent intersection
The corpus contains a single patent family, with Toyota Motor North America and Toyota Jidosha KK jointly accounting for all activity. The top five filers hold one hundred percent of the hundred largest filers’ combined total — a structural condition that reflects the earliest possible stage of a technology niche rather than an entrenched competitive lock-in.
There is no meaningful tier gap to analyze: one applicant, one filing, one jurisdiction. The absence of challengers and co-assignees means the space is structurally uncontested as of the evidence date.
| # | Applicant | Patent records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toyota Motor Corporation | 1 | |
| 2 | Toyota Motor North America | 1 |
Toyota’s sole position signals exploratory IP activity rather than a deliberate defensive portfolio. A single filing anchored in AI-assisted grid management and business-process logic suggests the company is staking a directional claim while the commercial use case is still being defined.
The 2025–2026 data window is subject to publication lag; additional filings from that period may not yet be visible in this corpus. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
A single 2024 filing marks the birth of a recognizable technology cluster
The annual filing trend and technology composition charts together convey a field at day one: no filing activity before 2024, and a technology mix that blends power-grid systems with AI and business-process computing.
Annual filing trend
Zero filings are recorded from 2017 through 2023; a single record appears in 2024. The 2025 and 2026 counts are zero in the current data, but those years are within the standard publication-lag window and cannot be treated as confirmed absence of activity.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
The sole filing maps to three IPC branches in equal measure: G06N (AI-based computing), G06Q (business and administrative data processing), and H02J (power supply and grid systems). This tri-modal profile indicates the invention sits at the convergence of grid control, agricultural operations management, and machine-learning optimization — a technically broad but commercially narrow footprint.
↗ 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.
Artificial intelligence-based energy optimization
An example operation includes at least one of receiving data comprising at least one of weather data, grid load data, or energy usage data related to an area, executing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to predict energy production in the area and energy consumption in the area, based on the received data, determining an optimized energy-related output… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
Ranked by total forward citations. Citation counts favour older and broadly cited patent families, and broad or adjacent patents may appear when they match the search scope. Treat this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents. Some patent titles may be shown in their original, non-English language where an accurate translation could not be guaranteed.
What the embryonic structure means for R&D investment decisions
With a corpus of one patent family, most structural metrics are directional rather than statistical. The observations below are grounded in what the evidence shows and explicitly flag where inference carries higher uncertainty.
Pre-competitive: no life-cycle stage can be assigned
The evidence corpus does not contain sufficient filing history to assign a formal life-cycle stage. The single 2024 record marks the point of origination. For R&D planners, this means entry barriers from prior art are minimal, but the absence of an established innovation path also means technical risk is uncharacterized.
EmbryonicEffectively zero competitive density
Toyota accounts for all documented activity. The top five filers hold one hundred percent of the hundred largest filers’ combined total, but that figure is arithmetically trivial given a corpus of one. No second-tier challenger, no academic filer, and no agri-tech or utility entrant has yet staked a claim in this specific intersection.
UncontestedNo co-applicant activity on record
Evidence pending: the collaboration data contains no co-filing relationships. The sole filing is attributed to Toyota entities operating within the same corporate group rather than external partners. Cross-sector partnerships between automakers, irrigation-equipment manufacturers, and grid operators — a natural fit for this use case — have not yet materialized in the patent record.
No co-filersUnited States is the only filing jurisdiction
All activity is concentrated in a single jurisdiction: the United States. No PCT, European, or Asian family members are visible. This narrow geographic footprint reinforces the exploratory nature of the filing and leaves protection gaps in major agricultural markets such as the EU, India, Brazil, and Australia.
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Co-filing pairs, ranked by the number of jointly-filed patent families.
Toyota Motor North America is the sole documented filer
Two Toyota entities appear in the applicant ranking, reflecting a single shared filing rather than independent portfolios. Their combined technology emphasis centers on AI-enabled grid management and business-process optimization applied to agricultural contexts.
Toyota Motor North America
Toyota Motor North America holds 1 patent record in this space and is classified as a new entrant (trend: new entrant). Its technology focus spans G06N AI computing, G06Q business and administrative data processing (both operations management and commerce sub-classes), reflecting a software-and-systems approach to V2G-powered irrigation rather than a hardware-first one.
patent records: 1Toyota Jidosha KK
Toyota Jidosha KK also appears with 1 patent record as a co-assignee on the same filing. No independent challenger from outside the Toyota group has entered the record. The absence of a true second-tier filer leaves the challenger slot structurally vacant.
patent records: 1| Applicant | Recent (3 yrs) | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| Toyota Motor North America | 1 | ▲ new entrant |
Under-served adjacent branches worth monitoring
With only one filing in the exact intersection, virtually the entire surrounding technical space qualifies as sparse. The two branches below are identified as adjacent observations with plausible technical value given the V2G-irrigation use case.
H02J 3/xx · Grid-side energy dispatch and demand response
H02J power-supply systems appears in the single filing’s IPC mix, yet no prior art exists in this corpus applying grid dispatch logic specifically to irrigation load scheduling. The technical value is high — agricultural pumping loads are large, interruptible, and time-shiftable, making them natural demand-response candidates. Entry path for new filers would involve claiming dispatch algorithms that co-optimize EV battery state-of-charge with crop-water-demand forecasts.
Search this in Eureka →A01G 25/xx · Automated irrigation control integrated with external energy signals
Agricultural irrigation control (A01G) does not appear in the current corpus at all, representing an entirely unoccupied adjacent branch. Irrigation scheduling patents in this class seldom reference V2G or dynamic electricity pricing signals. A filer combining A01G irrigation-control claims with H02J grid-interface claims could occupy a structurally differentiated position. Entry requires cross-disciplinary claim drafting spanning agronomy and power-electronics standards.
Search this in Eureka →How the sole filer spans technology routes
Strength of each leader across the main technology routes.
| Player | G06N 3 · Computing based on AI models | G06Q 10 · Business, commerce & admin data processing | G06Q 30 · Business, commerce & admin data processing | G06Q 50 · Business, commerce & admin data processing | H02J 3 · Power supply & grid systems |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toyota Motor North America | Strong · 1 | Strong · 1 | Strong · 1 | Strong · 1 | Strong · 1 |
Frequently asked questions
The current evidence corpus contains 1 patent family, published in the United States in 2024. This reflects the earliest stage of a recognizable technology niche rather than an established field.
Toyota Motor North America and Toyota Jidosha KK are the only applicants on record, co-assigned to the same single filing. No other company, university, or research institute has documented activity in this specific intersection.
The filing maps to three IPC classes: G06N (AI-based computing), G06Q (business and administrative data processing), and H02J (power supply and grid systems). This suggests an AI-assisted, software-defined approach to managing energy flows between electric vehicles and irrigation infrastructure.
Protection is currently limited to the United States. No PCT application, European patent, or filings in major agricultural markets such as India, Brazil, or Australia are visible in the evidence.
With a single filing in 2024 and no prior filings, the trend data does not provide a meaningful growth rate. The 2025 and 2026 windows are subject to publication lag, so absence of additional records in those years cannot be interpreted as confirmed stagnation.
Two under-served adjacent branches stand out from the evidence: H02J grid-dispatch logic applied to agricultural demand-response, and A01G automated irrigation control integrated with dynamic energy or V2G signals. Neither branch has documented filings in this corpus, indicating open positions for technically qualified entrants.
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