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India 2nd highest contributor for IBM patents in 2019
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SME Times News Bureau | 14 Jan, 2020
With over 900 patents, India became the second largest contributor in
the world to help IBM achieve a milestone of most patents ever awarded
to a US company, the company announced on Tuesday.
IBM inventors
received a record 9,262 US patents in 2019, marking the company's 27th
consecutive year of US patent leadership across key technology areas
such as AI, blockchain, Cloud computing, quantum computing and security.
Few
of the patents filed from India include 'Infrastructure costs and
benefit tracking'; 'automation and validation of insurance claims for
infrastructure risks and failures in multi-processor computing
environments and 'eye contact-based information transfer', the company
said in a statement.
"Technology advances - whether AI, cloud or
quantum computing - will all contribute to solving the biggest
challenges facing business and society," said Dr John E. Kelly III,
executive vice president, IBM.
"We are very proud of the talented individuals across IBM who change the world through their inventions," he added.
The
company was awarded more than 1,800 AI patents, including a method for
teaching AI systems how to understand and deduce the nuances and
implications behind certain text or phrases of speech by analyzing other
related content, it said in a statement.
IBM also led in the
number of blockchain patents granted, which includes several patents for
improving the security of blockchain networks.
IBM inventors
were granted more than 2,500 patents in cloud technology, including for
example a patent for a method to jointly manage cloud and non-cloud
computing platforms.
Since 1920, IBM has received more than 140,000 US patents.
This year, more than 8,500 IBM inventors, spanning 45 different US states and 54 countries contributed to the patents.
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