Patent Leadership Infographic
IBM inventors received a record 6,809 patents in 2013 for inventions that are expected enable significant innovations that will position IBM to compete and lead in strategic areas, such as IBM Watson, cloud computing, Big Data analytics – and advance the new era of cognitive systems where machines will learn, reason and interact with people in more natural ways. This is the 21st consecutive year that IBM topped the annual list of U.S. patent recipients.