<2018> Applicant Ranking of the number of Japanese granted patents in the AI field in 2018 (for rough trends)

2019-06-02 2019-06-02

The following table shows the ranking of Applicants in Japan. The ranking is based on the following conditions.

Technical field: AI (a population consists of patents that contain artificial intelligence-related terms in the full text).
Status: Japanese granted patents in 2018 (registration date).
Count: The number of patents filed by each applicant was counted.

This time we searched and extracted patents that contain AI-related terms in the full text of the patents, then created the ranking. Since the main search scope is the full text, the extracted population has less search omissions but can contain noise. According to this ranking, you can understand rough trends about AI patents.

Ranking	No.	Applicant	English	List
1	97	日本電信電話株式会社	Nippon Telegraph	View
2	72	ヤフー株式会社	Yahoo Japan	ｰ
3	58	日本電気株式会社	NEC	ｰ
4	58	株式会社日立製作所	Hitachi	ｰ
5	51	三菱電機株式会社	Mitsubishi Electric	ｰ
6	46	ファナック株式会社	FANUC	ｰ
7	39	株式会社東芝	Toshiba	ｰ
8	37	富士通株式会社	Fujitsu	ｰ
9	36	キヤノン株式会社	Canon	ｰ
10	35	フェイスブック，インク．	Facebook	ｰ
11	34	ＫＤＤＩ株式会社	KDDI	ｰ
12	29	エスゼット　ディージェイアイ　テクノロジー　カンパニー　リミテッド	SZ DJI	ｰ
13	28	クゥアルコム・インコーポレイテッド	Qualcomm	ｰ
14	26	ソニー株式会社	Sony	ｰ
15	25	トヨタ自動車株式会社	Toyota Motor	ｰ