The global automotive industry experienced a 66% decline in the number of cloud-related patent applications in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter. The total number of cloud-related grants dropped by 81% in Q3 2022, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Cloud in Automotive – Patenting Activity in Q3 2022.
Notably, the number of cloud-related patent applications in the automotive industry was 189 in Q3 2022, versus 554 in the prior quarter.
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Analysis of patenting activity by companies shows that International Business Machines filed the most cloud patents within the automotive industry in Q3 2022. The company filed 13 cloud-related patents in the quarter, compared with 10 in the previous quarter. It was followed by Microsoft with 5 cloud patent filings, Oracle (4 filings), and Dell Technologies (4 filings) in Q3 2022.
The largest share of cloud related patent filings in the automotive industry in Q3 2022 was in the US with 84%, followed by China (3%) and Germany (2%). The share represented by the US was 69% higher than the 15% share it accounted for in Q2 2022.
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GlobalData’s Patent Analytics tracks patent filings and grants from official offices around the world. Textual analysis and official patent classifications are used to group patents into key thematic areas and link them to specific companies across the world’s largest industries.
