Patent Theme
Tactile & Contact Force Sensing
Sensors and systems designed to detect and quantify localized contact forces, pressure distribution, or touch interactions, often employed in robotics, human-machine interfaces, or object manipulation applications.
4,643 US filings from 1,040 companies since 2023 · 2023: 1,313 · 2024: 1,494 · 2025: 1,276 · 2026 YTD: 560
Force / Pressure Measurement
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 217 | 69 | 65 | 60 | 23 | -7.7% |
| 2 | Wacom Co., Ltd. | 152 | 26 | 48 | 49 | 29 | +2.1% |
| 3 | Samsung Display Co., Ltd. | 118 | 37 | 41 | 27 | 13 | -34.1% |
| 4 | Japan Display Inc. | 103 | 33 | 40 | 21 | 9 | -47.5% |
| 5 | HiDeep Inc. | 83 | 18 | 27 | 22 | 16 | -18.5% |
| 6 | SONY GROUP CORPORATION | 80 | 16 | 33 | 26 | 5 | -21.2% |
| 7 | Synaptics Incorporated | 74 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 15 | +15.0% |
| 8 | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 71 | 17 | 20 | 29 | 5 | +45.0% |
| 9 | SIGMASENSE, LLC. | 68 | 30 | 22 | 15 | 1 | -31.8% |
| 10 | BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. | 67 | 7 | 26 | 23 | 11 | -11.5% |
| 11 | Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. | 64 | 16 | 22 | 16 | 10 | -27.3% |
| 12 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 63 | 19 | 23 | 16 | 5 | -30.4% |
| 13 | Sensel, Inc. | 61 | 30 | 19 | 11 | 1 | -42.1% |
| 14 | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | 54 | 12 | 24 | 17 | 1 | -29.2% |
| 15 | Cirque Corporation | 51 | 9 | 16 | 19 | 7 | +18.8% |
| 16 | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 51 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 10 | -20.0% |
| 17 | Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd. | 48 | 3 | 18 | 19 | 8 | +5.6% |
| 18 | DELL PRODUCTS L.P. | 48 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 0.0% |
| 19 | Cypress Semiconductor Corporation | 47 | 17 | 19 | 4 | 7 | -78.9% |
| 20 | Infineon Technologies AG | 40 | 7 | 16 | 15 | 2 | -6.2% |
| 21 | Robert Bosch GmbH | 40 | 8 | 17 | 8 | 7 | -52.9% |
| 22 | Toyota Research Institute, Inc. | 39 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 4 | -30.0% |
| 23 | LX SEMICON CO., LTD. | 34 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 4 | -63.6% |
| 24 | GOOGLE LLC | 33 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 4 | -40.0% |
| 25 | PixArt Imaging Inc. | 32 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 5 | +16.7% |