Samsung Has Third Most Patents on AI: Report
Jun. 7, 2019Samsung Electronics Co. has the third-largest number of patents related to artificial intelligence (AI), coming behind two US tech giants, a report showed on Friday.
Five of the top 10 companies were based in the United States, two in Japan, one in South Korea, one in the Netherlands and one Germany, Yonhap news agency reported.
“The more countries in which an invention has been patented, the higher the perceived international market potential for the patented invention,” the study said.
Samsung, also the world’s largest smartphone maker, has been racing to propel innovation in AI technology to foster new growth drivers, having been working on various types of AI applications in smartphones and other electronics in its AI labs.
