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IBM announced that the company received a record of 7,534 patents in 2014. This marked the company's 22 consecutive years of topping the United States patent list.
The company's investors garnered an average of 20 patents daily in the previous year putting the company at the forefront and exceeding the standard of more than 7000 patents in one year. The patents include inventions that facilitate analytics, cloud computing, mobile and social and security advancements, according to SMT Online.
IBM's patent leadership shows the company's lasting commitment on research and development to the benefit of technological advancement globally, explained Ginni Rometty, IBM's chairman, President and CEO, PCB reported.
The tech giant's 2014 patent results consisted of a diversified array of innovations that placed the company to lead in strategic areas like cloud computing, big data and analytics. Such breakthroughs will progress the new era of perceptive systems where machines reason and interact with people naturally.
The tech company set a record breaking patent history in 2014's 3000 patent output which is 40 percent of its annual total. It covered social and security inventions, analytics, mobile, and cloud computing and has doubled its inventions on these ideas.
IBM also gained more than 500 patents for discoveries in the areas of cognitive systems which include Watson cognitive technology. The company's designers have received more than 81,500 US patents within the span of more than two decades being on the top patent list from 1993-2014.
The company has surpassed the patent count from Amazon, Accenture, HP, Google, Intel, and Oracle altogether.
Topping the list of 2014 U.S. patent recipients with 7,534, IBM is followed by Samsung with 4,952, Canon with 4,055, Sony with 3,224, Microsoft with 2,829, Toshiba with 2,608, Qualcomm with 2,590, Google with 2,566, LG Electronics with 2,122 and Panasonic with 2,095 based on the data provided by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services.
