| November 30, 2020 The USPTO Office of the Chief Economist recently released a remarkable report, Inventing AI. The report finds widespread gains in the level of AI patenting and a diffusion of AI technologies across industries. The report was generated in part with an AI algorithm and manual validation covers 2002-2018. Highlights of the report include: * Share of all US patent applications that contain AI grew from 9% to about 16%. * Number of AI patent applications filed per year increased more than 100% from 30,000 to more than 60,000 annually. * 25% of inventor-patentees in 2018 were active in AI. * Patent filings for AI component technologies, software and hardware, have increased.Machine learning (ML) applications increased sharply since 2012. * Planning/control and knowledge processing have the largest volume of AI patent applications. See, Inventing AI – Tracing the diffusion of artificial intelligence with U.S. Patents, October 2020 https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/OCE-DH-AI.pdf |