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In January 2011, International Business Machines (IBM) announced that its inventors received a record 5,896 U.S. patents in 2010, marking the 18th consecutive year it has topped the list of the world’s most inventive companies. IBM became the first company to be granted as many as 5,000 U.S. patents in a single year. It took Big Blue’s inventors more than 50 years to receive their first 5,000 patents after the company was established in 1911. Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year (1911-2011), IBM has consistently pursued patents for inventions that translate into real-world solutions that make systems, processes and infrastructures more efficient andproductive. The first patent IBM received in 1911 was related to punched-card tabulation.
In 2010, IBM received patentsfor a range of inventions such as a method for gathering, analyzing, and processing patient information
from multiple data sources to provide more effective diagnoses of medical conditions; a system for predicting traffic conditions based on information exchanged over short-range wireless communications; and a technology advancement for enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light instead of electrical signals, which can deliver increased performance of computing systems.
More than 7,000 IBM inventors residing in 46 different U.S. states and 29 countries generated the company's record-breaking 2010 patent tally. Inventors residing outside the U.S. contributed to more than 22% of its patents in 2010. IBM’s 2010 patent total nearly exceeded the combined patents of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, EMC, and Google.
In 2010, IBM received patentsfor a range of inventions such as a method for gathering, analyzing, and processing patient information
from multiple data sources to provide more effective diagnoses of medical conditions; a system for predicting traffic conditions based on information exchanged over short-range wireless communications; and a technology advancement for enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light instead of electrical signals, which can deliver increased performance of computing systems.
More than 7,000 IBM inventors residing in 46 different U.S. states and 29 countries generated the company's record-breaking 2010 patent tally. Inventors residing outside the U.S. contributed to more than 22% of its patents in 2010. IBM’s 2010 patent total nearly exceeded the combined patents of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, EMC, and Google.
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