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Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Landscape Report 2026: Analyzing Key Patent Holdings, R&D Filings, and IP Strategies of Industry Leaders

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IBM IBM is listed as a leading organization in AI patent development, with its patent activity, products, technology focus, collaborations, and M&A assessed in the report. The analysis covers its strategic priorities in AI. GOOGL Google Inc is identified as a leading organization in AI patent development. The report details its patent family activity, products, technology focus, collaborations, M&A, and key patents, covering areas like NLP, computer vision, and enterprise AI. MSFT Microsoft Corp is featured as a leading organization in AI patent development. The report examines its patent family activity, products, technologies, and patent clustering, with strategic priorities including enterprise AI and cloud computing. QCOM Qualcomm Inc is listed among the leading organizations in AI patent development. The report assesses its patent family activity, products, technologies, collaborations, M&A, and key patents, with a focus on semiconductor technologies and AI. INTC Intel Corp is identified as a key player in AI patent development. The report analyzes its patent family activity, products, technologies, M&A, and key patents, highlighting its role in AI and semiconductor technologies. NVDA NVIDIA Corp is recognized as a leading organization in AI patent development. The report details its patent family activity, products, and technologies, indicating its significant involvement in AI innovation, particularly in chip design and making. SI Siemens AG is listed as a prominent organization in AI patent development. The report covers its patent family activity, products, technologies, M&A, and key patents, with strategic priorities including industrial automation and AI.

Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Landscape Report 2026: Analyzing Key Patent Holdings, R&D Filings, and IP Strategies of Industry Leaders Dublin, Aug. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Artificial Intelligence AI" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Artificial Intelligence Patent Landscape Report 2010-2024: Global Market, Technology and Competitive Analysis

The Artificial Intelligence Patent Landscape Report delivers a comprehensive analysis of 244,202 AI patents filed across major jurisdictions between 2010 and 2024. Drawing on international patent filings, the report examines innovation across healthcare, finance, entertainment, agriculture, energy, logistics, industrial automation, retail, manufacturing, transportation, consumer electronics and enterprise software.

The analysis combines quantitative patent data, descriptive statistics, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, topic modeling, patent clustering and International Patent Classification-based technology segmentation. It provides actionable intelligence on patent activity, competitive positioning, geographic coverage and emerging innovation opportunities in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, computer vision, image and video recognition, pattern recognition, robotics, predictive analytics and intelligent automation.

Organized into Landscape Overview, Market and Competitor Analysis, Technology Analysis and Key Players' Patent Profiles, the report supports strategic decision-making in research and development, product innovation, investment, licensing, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and market entry.

Artificial Intelligence Patent Landscape Overview

The landscape overview tracks global AI patent trends from 2010 through 2024. The dataset includes 106,684 active patents, 94,075 pending patents and 42,952 inactive, discontinued or expired patents. Filing activity reached its highest level in 2023, when more than 45,000 new patents were recorded. Approximately 95% of the identified patents have been registered since 2019, underscoring the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence research and commercialization.

China leads the global artificial intelligence patent landscape with 115,768 registrations, followed by the United States with 58,671 patents. South Korea, Europe and other jurisdictions account for smaller shares. These results highlight China's dominant filing position and the United States' substantial contribution to global AI innovation.

Artificial Intelligence Market and Competitor Analysis

The market analysis evaluates global AI market value, regional demand, industry applications, leading producers, patent applicants, patent owners, highly cited organizations and collaboration networks. The global artificial intelligence market was valued at approximately USD 136 billion in 2022 and is projected to achieve a compound annual growth rate of about 37% between 2023 and 2030. Selected forecasts indicate that the market could exceed USD 1.8 trillion by 2030.

Banking, financial services and insurance represent approximately 20%-25% of AI market revenue. Healthcare accounts for an estimated 15%-20%, retail and e-commerce represent approximately 15%, and manufacturing contributes around 10%-15%. The report connects market indicators with patent activity across healthcare, finance, agriculture, energy, entertainment, logistics, retail, transportation and industrial markets, enabling stakeholders to identify high-growth applications and competitive opportunities.

AI Technology Analysis

The technology analysis reviews major areas of artificial intelligence innovation, including machine learning, biological-model computing arrangements, image and video recognition, pattern recognition, image analysis, data processing, natural language processing, robotics and computer vision.

Key development areas include neural networks, predictive analytics, automated data preparation, synthetic-data generation, distributed learning, federated learning, model compression, pruning, quantization and on-device AI. The report also examines real-time decision-making, explainable and interpretable AI, differential privacy, encrypted computation, virtual assistants, autonomous systems and intelligent automation. Together, these technologies are shaping the next generation of enterprise, industrial and consumer AI applications.

Leading Artificial Intelligence Patent Owners

The report profiles ten prominent organizations active in artificial intelligence patent development: IBM, Google Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Intel Corp., NVIDIA Corp., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology and Siemens AG.

Each company is assessed through patent-family activity, products and processes, technology focus, collaborations, mergers and acquisitions, key patents, topic modeling and patent clustering. Strategic priorities covered in the profiles include natural language processing, computer vision, virtual assistants, enterprise AI, cloud computing, consumer electronics, semiconductor technologies, autonomous systems, healthcare AI, industrial automation, image recognition, speech processing and machine-learning infrastructure.

By combining patent trends, market intelligence, technology analysis and competitor profiles, the report provides a strategic resource for organizations seeking to assess the global artificial intelligence innovation landscape. It is relevant to stakeholders involved in AI research and development, product strategy, investment, technology licensing, market expansion, cloud computing, robotics, autonomous systems, industrial automation, healthcare technology, financial services and academic research.

What You Will Receive

Who Should Read the Report

Key Topics Covered:

1. Introduction

2. Patent Landscape Overview

2.1. Patent Family Analysis

2.2. Patent-Market Coverage

2.3. Geographical jurisdiction

2.4. Global AI Patent Distribution

2.5. Global AI Patent Activity

3. Market and Competitor Analysis

3.1. Market at a Glance

3.2. Market Share of Main Producers

3.3. Main Processes in AI

3.4. Top Applicants

3.5. Analysis of AI Patent Leaders

3.6. Top AI Patent Applicants

3.7. Market Coverage of Top Applicants

3.8. Top Owners

3.9. Highly-Cited Applicants

3.10. Collaboration

3.10.1. Top Applicants' collaborations

3.10.2. The strongest cooperation networks

3.11. Top applicant activity

3.12. Pioneer companies in the last 5 years

3.13. Pending patents

4. Technology Analysis

4.1. Top Technologies

4.1.1. Top Technologies Trend

4.1.2. AI Patent Trends Across Industries

4.1.3. Top Technologies by Class

4.1.4. Top Technologies by Sub-Class

4.1.5. Top Technologies by Main-Group

4.1.6. Top Technologies by Sub-Group

4.1.7. Top Technologies and Main Trends

4.2. Five Recent dominant technologies

4.3. Key Patents

4.4. The main Themes of patents

4.5. Technology clustering

4.6. Top inventors

5. Key Players' Patent Profile

5.1. IBM

5.1.1. IBM Overview

5.1.2. Patent family analysis

5.1.3. Top Products and Processes

5.1.4. Top Technologies

5.1.5. Collaboration

5.1.6. Merge and Acquisitions

5.1.7. Key patents

5.1.8. Topic modeling

5.1.9. Patents clustering

5.2. Google Inc

5.2.1. Google Inc overview

5.2.2. Patent family analysis

5.2.3. Top Products and Processes

5.2.4. Top Technologies

5.2.6. Merge and Acquisitions

5.2.7. Key patents

5.2.9. Patents clustering

5.3. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

5.3.1. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Overview

5.3.2. Patent family analysis

5.3.4. Top Technologies

5.3.5. Collaboration

5.3.6. Merge and Acquisitions

5.3.7. Key patents

5.3.8. Topic modeling

5.3.9. Patent clustering

5.4. Microsoft Corp

5.4.1. Microsoft Corp Overview

5.4.2. Patent family analysis

5.4.3. Top Products

5.4.4. Top Technologies

5.4.9. Patents clustering

5.5. Qualcomm Inc

5.5.1. Qualcomm Inc overview

5.5.2. Patent family analysis

5.5.3. Top Products and Processes

5.5.4. Top Technologies

5.5.5. Collaboration

5.5.6. Merge and Acquisitions

5.5.7. Key patents

5.5.8. Topic modeling

5.5.9. Patents clustering

5.6. Intel Corp

5.6.1. Intel Corp overview

5.6.2. Patent family analysis

5.6.3. Top Products and Processes

5.6.4. Top Technologies

5.6.6. Merge and Acquisitions

5.6.7. Key patents

5.6.8. Topic modeling

5.6.9. Patent Clustering

5.7. NVIDIA Corp

5.7.1. NVIDIA Corp overview

5.7.2. Patent family analysis

5.7.3. Top Products and Processes

5.7.4. Top Technologies

5.7.6. Merge and Acquisitions

5.7.7. Key patents

5.8. Huawei Tech Co Ltd

5.8.1. Huawei Tech Co Ltd overview

5.8.2. Patent family analysis

5.8.3. Top Products and Processes

5.8.4. Top Technologies

5.8.6. Merge and Acquisitions

5.8.7. Key patents

5.8.9. Patents clustering

5.9. Beijing Baidu Netcom Sci & Tec

5.9.1. Beijing Baidu Netcom Sci & Tec overview

5.9.2. Patent family analysis

5.9.3. Top Products and Processes

5.9.4. Top Technologies

5.9.6. Merge and Acquisitions

5.9.7. Key patents

5.9.8. Topic modeling

5.10. Siemens AG

5.10.1. Siemens AG overview

5.10.2. Patent family analysis

5.10.3. Top Products and Processes

5.10.4. Top Technologies

5.10.6. Merge and Acquisitions

5.10.7. Key patents

5.10.8. Topic modeling

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