Wednesday, January 21, 2009

IBM Wins the Patents’ Competition In 2009

I never thought of existence of some record similar to this.

“The biggest number of patents in a single year!”

When you think about it from one side it appears to be something silly. But this is the record of the mighty IBM, I cannot say it out.

The products of IBM, which were patented last year, were like: a wireless system to detect a child's presence in the baby car seat, a method for blind to find their way about using radio frequency, a cheaper way to build nanotechnology which is used to make chips, etc. And when they all are piled up together, it accounted to 4,186 US patents.

The second place is secured by Samsung Electronics which has patented for 3,515 products in 2008.

Microsoft is next in the race with 2,030 patents, followed by Intel corp with 1,776 patents.

Hewlett-Packard is also doing with 1,424 patents, but not as much as IBM.

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