On January 29, it was reported that a 2023 global semiconductor patent statistics recently released by Anaqua, an intellectual property management company, showed that the United States will have the largest number of semiconductor patents declared in 2023, reaching 348,774, a slight increase from 347,408 in 2022, and has topped the list for two consecutive years.
If divided by the country and region where the patent applicant is located, the number of patents granted by U.S. companies is 162,557, ranking first among all countries, an increase of 18% over 2022; Japan came in second with 40,960 pieces; Chinese mainland ranked third with 28,979; South Korea ranked fourth with 24,073 patents granted; Germany ranks fifth with 13,905 patents granted.
If divided by company, Samsung Electronics is far ahead of the list of most innovative companies. In terms of the number of patents granted, Samsung Electronics received 10,043 U.S. patents granted in technology areas such as data search solutions, electronic advertising technology, electronics related to renewable energy power generation, organic electric solid-state devices, and semiconductor manufacturing, an increase of 8% from 2022.
The other five most innovative companies are IBM (4,003), Qualcomm (3,852), TSMC (3,442), and LG (3,319).
In terms of the number of granted patents, the top technology areas include semiconductor technology (for the second year in a row), virtual reality (VRG), artificial intelligence (AI), and software technology related to unauthorized user detection. Other areas in the top 10 include: program control units, medical-related technologies, wireless technologies, chemicals and chemistry-related technologies, and cybersecurity technologies.
In addition, the most creative areas in reviewing AI-related granted U.S. patents include machine learning models, general neural network development, neural network combination techniques, neural networks for image and recognition, and neural network training using backpropagation processes. And the companies that have obtained the most authorized AI patents in the United States in 2023 are IBM, Samsung Electronics, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Editor: Xinzhixun-Rogue Sword.