Artificial Intelligence (AI) In The Agritech Space

While running the analysis for our full AI Report , we noticed some interesting trends in the Agritech sector. In particular, the European Patent Office (EPO) has seen a remarkable increase in the number of AI patent filings in the Agritech sector in recent years. In 2015, we see that AI patent filings in the Agritech sector have doubled compared to previous years, and by 2019 the AI patent filings have increased more than ten times.

It has also been interesting to see a change in the types of technology being protected. For the period between 2000 and 2014, the majority of the Agritech AI patent filings related to organic and biochemistry, as well as methods for testing and analysis of biological materials. More recently however, the AI patent filings in this sector are dominated by control systems for autonomous vehicles, for example automatic pilot and guidance systems for agricultural machines, and pattern recognition technology for use in vehicle navigation