Patent Theme
Physical Item Tracking & Management
Systems and methods for uniquely identifying, tracking, and managing physical items using scannable codes (barcodes, QR codes) or wireless tags (RFID, IoT devices) to link physical objects to digital information, inventory, or services.
16,277 US filings from 3,811 companies since 2023 · 2023: 4,578 · 2024: 5,334 · 2025: 4,644 · 2026 YTD: 1,721
Data Recognition (Barcodes, OCR)
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | Walmart Apollo, LLC | 362 | 104 | 131 | 103 | 24 | -21.4% |
| 2 | ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION | 345 | 75 | 127 | 102 | 41 | -19.7% |
| 3 | TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 344 | 103 | 124 | 89 | 28 | -28.2% |
| 4 | NEC CORPORATION | 340 | 108 | 109 | 102 | 21 | -6.4% |
| 5 | Capital One Services, LLC | 254 | 83 | 93 | 63 | 15 | -32.3% |
| 6 | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | 185 | 57 | 63 | 46 | 19 | -27.0% |
| 7 | eBay Inc. | 174 | 68 | 50 | 42 | 14 | -16.0% |
| 8 | UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE | 162 | 48 | 54 | 41 | 19 | -24.1% |
| 9 | TARGET BRANDS, INC. | 130 | 36 | 35 | 43 | 16 | +22.9% |
| 10 | TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 129 | 39 | 43 | 31 | 16 | -27.9% |
| 11 | International Business Machines Corporation | 121 | 47 | 44 | 25 | 5 | -43.2% |
| 12 | United Parcel Service of America, Inc. | 109 | 39 | 36 | 32 | 2 | -11.1% |
| 13 | Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC | 106 | 46 | 29 | 23 | 8 | -20.7% |
| 14 | Tile, Inc. | 105 | 32 | 39 | 27 | 7 | -30.8% |
| 15 | DELL PRODUCTS L.P. | 105 | 25 | 40 | 26 | 14 | -35.0% |
| 16 | Maplebear Inc. | 103 | 5 | 21 | 54 | 23 | +157.1% |
| 17 | Bank of America Corporation | 99 | 28 | 40 | 25 | 6 | -37.5% |
| 18 | Apple Inc. | 92 | 20 | 37 | 26 | 9 | -29.7% |
| 19 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 91 | 15 | 28 | 38 | 10 | +35.7% |
| 20 | Hand Held Products, Inc. | 87 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 7 | +11.1% |
| 21 | NCR VOYIX CORPORATION | 81 | 1 | 30 | 30 | 20 | 0.0% |
| 22 | Trackonomy Systems, Inc. | 78 | 21 | 24 | 29 | 4 | +20.8% |
| 23 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 73 | 28 | 12 | 22 | 11 | +83.3% |
| 24 | PAYPAL, INC. | 71 | 29 | 29 | 10 | 3 | -65.5% |
| 25 | T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC | 71 | 4 | 17 | 27 | 23 | +58.8% |