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Tompkins Robotics, Inc.

Tompkins Robotics, Inc. surprisingly maintains a significant patent portfolio in Business Methods & Fintech, accounting for 32.8% of its total patents, which is unexpected given its core manufacturing focus. While its primary categories like Conveying & Handling and Industrial & Autonomous Control saw strong growth in 2024 (41.7% and 42.9% YoY respectively), the sharp decline across most categories in 2025 and so far in 2026 suggests a potential shift in patenting strategy or a temporary slowdown in innovation output.

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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.

64 US filings (since 2023) · 5 categories · 6 themes

Automated Storage and Sorting Systems

Systems and methods for efficient storage, retrieval, and sorting of items within warehouses, distribution centers, or manufacturing facilities, often involving vertical lifts, high-throughput sorters, or inventory management logic.

Conveying & Handling
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52since 2023
-5.6%YoY
Vehicle Docking & Loading Automation

Systems and mechanisms designed to safely and efficiently interface transport vehicles (trucks, trailers) with loading docks or automated loading systems, including vehicle restraint, telescopic loading arms, and specialized vehicle-mounted conveyors.

Conveying & Handling
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16since 2023
-42.9%YoY
Robotic Item Picking & Placement

Focuses on the mechanisms, control, and sensing involved in robots or automated systems accurately grasping, moving, and releasing individual items, often in conjunction with conveyor systems or storage units, including path planning and end effector design.

Conveying & Handling
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8since 2023
-50.0%YoY
Autonomous Path Planningfiltered

Algorithms and systems for generating, optimizing, and executing trajectories for autonomous vehicles or robots to move through an environment, often involving obstacle avoidance, route validation, and goal reaching.

Industrial & Autonomous Control
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4since 2023
-50.0%YoY
Advanced Security & Inspection Systems

Systems employing various sensing modalities, including X-ray, fiber optics, ground-penetrating radar, and image analysis, for detecting threats, monitoring perimeters, and inspecting objects in security or transportation contexts.

Geophysics & Gravity Measurement
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3since 2023
new
Automated Transaction Systems

Systems designed to streamline and automate various commercial transactions, including mobile-enhanced processes, secure online checkouts, customer service interactions, and privilege issuance, often leveraging digital authentication.

Business Methods & Fintech
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1since 2023
new

Patents

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Autonomous Path Planning
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US 20250117011 A1APPLICATION
G05D1/00

ROBOTIC VEHICLE NAVIGATON SYSTEM AND METHOD

Filed:2024-12-16Pub:2025-04-10
Applicant:Tompkins Robotics, Inc.

System is configured to receive article information corresponding to articles to be transported by computer-controlled vehicles, the articles comprising a first article and a second article, each having a maximum article dimension. System is also configured to assign travel routes about a grid comprising grid cells for the vehicles to travel thereon. The travel route of a first vehicle carrying the first article includes a turning maneuver at a first grid cell. System is configured to control the turning maneuver of the first vehicle in the first grid cell such that there is no contact between the first article carried on the first vehicle with a second article carried on a second vehicle present in a second grid cell that is adjacent to the first grid cell when the first vehicle is undertaking the turning maneuver.

US 20240264598 A1APPLICATION
G05D1/00

IMPROVED ROBOTIC VEHICLE NAVIGATON SYSTEM AND METHOD

Filed:2024-03-07Pub:2024-08-08
Applicant:Tompkins Robotics, Inc.

System is configured to receive article information corresponding to articles to be transported by computer-controlled vehicles, the articles comprising a first article and a second article, each having a maximum article dimension. System is also configured to assign travel routes about a grid comprising grid cells for the vehicles to travel thereon. The travel route of a first vehicle carrying the first article includes a turning maneuver at a first grid cell. System is configured to control the turning maneuver of the first vehicle in the first grid cell such that there is no contact between the first article carried on the first vehicle with a second article carried on a second vehicle present in a second grid cell that is adjacent to the first grid cell when the first vehicle is undertaking the turning maneuver.

US 11934201 B1GRANTED
G05D1/02

Robotic vehicle navigaton system and method

Filed:2023-07-12Pub:2024-03-19
Applicant:Tompkins Robotics, Inc.

System is configured to receive article information corresponding to articles to be transported by computer-controlled vehicles, the articles comprising a first article and a second article, each having a maximum article dimension. System is also configured to assign travel routes about a grid comprising grid cells for the vehicles to travel thereon. The travel route of a first vehicle carrying the first article includes a turning maneuver at a first grid cell. System is configured to control the turning maneuver of the first vehicle in the first grid cell such that there is no contact between the first article carried on the first vehicle with a second article carried on a second vehicle present in a second grid cell that is adjacent to the first grid cell when the first vehicle is undertaking the turning maneuver.

US 11720122 B1GRANTED
G05D1/02

Robotic vehicle navigaton system and method

Filed:2022-10-27Pub:2023-08-08
Applicant:Tompkins Robotics, Inc.

System is configured to receive article information corresponding to articles to be transported by computer-controlled vehicles, the articles comprising a first article and a second article, each having a maximum article dimension. System is also configured to assign travel routes about a grid comprising grid cells for the vehicles to travel thereon. The travel route of a first vehicle carrying the first article includes a turning maneuver at a first grid cell. System is configured to control the turning maneuver of the first vehicle in the first grid cell such that there is no contact between the first article carried on the first vehicle with a second article carried on a second vehicle present in a second grid cell that is adjacent to the first grid cell when the first vehicle is undertaking the turning maneuver.

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