Thursday 12 January 2017

IBM Receives Record Breaking 8000 US Patent for 2016

IBM Receives Record Breaking 8000 US Patent for 2016 IBM has become the first company to break the US patent record by receiving 8,088 patents in 2016 with a rate of 22 patents per day. The achievement also marked the 24th consecutive year of the computer hardware giant’s innovation leadership. IBM’s 2016 patent output covers a diverse range of inventions in artificial intelligence and
cognitive computing, cognitive health, cloud, cyber security and other strategic growth areas for the company. In India, IBM inventors received 658 patents while in New York over 2,700 patents were received and in California and Texas over 1,000 patents each.
The list of top 5 US patent recipients 2016
1.IBM: 8,088 patents
2.Samsung Electronics: 5,518United States based multinational corporation IBM has announced that it will create a new "Internet of Things (IoT)" unit and will invest USD 3 billion over four years to build on it.
3.Canon: 3,665
4.Qualcomm: 2,897
5.Google: 2,835

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