IBM earns record patents in 2018, India 2nd highest contributor

BENGALURU: IBM said it received 9100 patents in 2018 maintaining its leadership position for 26th consecutive years and India emerged he second highest contributor with 800 patents.

The technology major said it received more than 4000 patents in areas such as AI, cloud computing, security and quantum computing.

One of the patents filed from IBM India includes to ensure efficient ticket-raising in business operations. Tickets can contain structured and unstructured text, making it tough to extract useful information. To deal with this, IBM inventors developed an AI-based approach for structured representation and classification of noisy and unstructured data in tickets used in service delivery.


The company said its India inventors were Shivali Agarwal, Gaargi B. Dasgupta, Shripad J. Nadgowda and Tapan K. Nayak.

Globally, IBM received more than 1600 artificial intelligence -based patents including Project Debater, a first-of-a-kind AI system from IBM Research that can debate humans on complex topics.

IBM was also awarded patents related to IoT including “Water Temperature Mapping and Monitoring to Protect Marine and Freshwater Life,” an intelligent system that could be used to identify, characterize, and monitor vertical temperature profiles and gradients that can affect various organisms and water quality in oceans and lakes.

Besides, the company received more than 2,000 cloud computing patents, 1400 of them cyber security domain.