Company patents
Nanotronics Imaging, Inc.
Nanotronics Imaging, Inc. surprisingly shows a strong, albeit volatile, focus on Industrial Control Systems, which represents 43.1% of its portfolio and saw a massive 153.8% YoY growth in 2024 before a sharp decline. While Image Processing and Machine Learning & AI also represent significant portions (32.3% and 30.8% respectively) and experienced over 30% YoY growth in 2024, the company's patenting activity across most categories, including these, has seen substantial year-over-year declines in 2025 and so far in 2026, indicating a potential shift in strategy or a more selective approach to patenting.
Patent Trend by Technology Area
Yearly patent publications since 2023
Product themes
Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.
130 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 11 themes
Systems and methods for real-time sensing, modeling, and closed-loop control of additive manufacturing parameters to ensure part quality, consistency, and process efficiency. This includes thermal management, atmospheric regulation, and precise material deposition.
Applying machine learning and artificial intelligence models to analyze industrial data, predict system behavior, and optimize control strategies for improved efficiency, quality, or environmental compliance in manufacturing and operations.
Systems that employ imaging and image processing to automatically detect defects, verify states, or ensure quality control in manufactured goods, printed materials, or industrial processes.
Development of sophisticated optical lens assemblies and computational methods to achieve high-resolution, precise, or specialized imaging, often for medical or scientific applications.
Specialized cybersecurity solutions designed to protect industrial control systems (ICS), SCADA networks, and other operational technology environments from cyber threats and unauthorized access.
Systems that combine data from multiple camera sensors or capture multiple images from different perspectives or qualities, often involving image processing techniques like synthesis to create enhanced or comprehensive views.
Techniques for building three-dimensional metal objects layer-by-layer using metal powders, including powder bed fusion, binder jetting, and directed energy deposition. This theme encompasses process mechanics, equipment design, and operational control for AM systems.
Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to enhance cryptographic systems, such as generating encryption models, improving zero-trust architectures, or enabling privacy-preserving computations like federated learning.
Utilizing sensor data, historical performance, and analytical models to anticipate equipment failures, diagnose faults, and estimate remaining useful life, thereby enabling proactive maintenance and reducing downtime.
Methods and apparatus for improving the visual fidelity, resolution, or compression efficiency of video signals, often through advanced processing, up-scaling, or neural network-based filters.
Utilizing machine learning, particularly deep learning, to analyze medical data such as images, sensor readings, or physiological signals for disease prediction, diagnosis, or treatment assessment.
Patents
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Video Quality & Encoding Optimization