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Washington: IT giant IBM has announced that it received a record 6,478
patents in 2012 for inventions that will enable fundamental advancements across
key domains including analytics, Big Data, cybersecurity, cloud, mobile, social
networking and software defined environments, as well as industry solutions for
retail, banking, healthcare, and transportation.
These patented inventions aims to “advance a major shift” in
computing, known as the era of cognitive systems.
This is the 20th consecutive year that IBM topped
the annual list of U.S. patent recipients.
“We are proud of this new benchmark in technological and
scientific creativity, which grows out of IBM’s century-long commitment to research
and development,” said Ginni Rometty, chairman and CEO, IBM. “Most concretely,
our 2012 patent record and the two decades of leadership it extends are a
testament to thousands of brilliant IBM inventors -- the living embodiments of
our devotion to innovation that matters, for our clients, for our company and
for the world.”
IBM's record-setting 2012 patent tally was made
possible by more than 8,000 IBM inventors residing in 46 different U.S. states
and 35 countries. IBM inventors residing outside the U.S. contributed to nearly
30% of the company's 2012 U.S. patent output.
From 1993-2012, IBM inventors received nearly 67,000 U.S. patents.
The company's 2012 patent count exceeded the combined totals of Accenture,
Amazon, Apple, EMC, HP, Intel, Oracle/SUN and Symantec.