요약
‘AI발명: 미국 특허를 통한 인공지능의 확산’ 보고서는 특허 심사관 및 기술 전문가 집단 등 지식재산 보호를 원하는 모든 사람들에게 AI 중요성이 증가하고 있음을 확인해 주는 내용이다.
보고서 연구자들은 1976년부터 2018년까지 발표된 모든 미국 특허 출원을 조사하기 위해 자체 AI 알고리즘을 개발했다.
가격: 무료
발행: 미국 특허청(USPTO)
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KEY FINDINGS
• Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly important for invention, diffusing broadly across technologies, inventor-patentees, organizations, and geography.
•In the 16 years from 2002 to 2018, annual AI patent applications increased by more than 100%, rising from 30,000 to more than 60,000 annually. Over the same period, the share of all patent applications that contain AI grew from 9% to nearly 16%.
• Patents containing AI appeared in about 9% of all technology subclasses used by the USPTO in 1976 and spread to more than 42% by 2018.
• The percentage of inventor-patentees who are active in AI started at 1% in 1976 and increased to 25% by 2018. Growth in the percentage of organizations patenting in AI has been similar.
• Most of the top 30 AI companies are in the information and communications technology sector, with some notable exceptions such as Bank of America, Boeing, and General Electric.
•AI diffusion is occurring widely across the United States. For example, inventor-patentees in Oregon are using AI in fitness training and equipment, and in North Dakota, AI is used in agriculture.
