India Ranks Fifth China Leads Global GenAI Patents: U.N. Data
China-based inventors are filing the highest number of generative artificial intelligence patents, a new report from the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) shows.
Report’s key findings
According to the report, GenAI patents currently represent 6 per cent of all AI patents globally.
The top ten applicants include Tencent (2,074 inventions), Ping An Insurance (1,564), Baidu (1,234), Chinese Academy of Sciences (607), IBM (601), Alibaba Group (571), Samsung Electronics (468), Alphabet (443), ByteDance (418), and Microsoft (377).
In terms of location, China (38,210 inventions) led the field, far outpacing US (6,276 inventions), Republic of Korea (4,155), Japan (3,409) and India (1,350).
India ranked fifth in term of filing the highest number of generative artificial intelligence patents.
Image and video data dominated GenAI patents (17,996 inventions), followed by text (13,494) and speech or music (13,480).
GenAI patents using molecule, gene and protein-based data grew rapidly (1,494 inventions since 2014) with 78 per cent average annual growth over the past five years.