China is more than 4 times as innovative as the based on IP failings in the US

Internationally, China and the United States are granted the highest numbers of Artificial Intelligence patents, with China’s AI patents primarily granted in machine learning.

Approximately 190,000 Artificial Intelligence patents were granted worldwide between 2000 and 2022. In 2022, about 40,000 AI patents were granted to inventors with addresses from China; the comparable figure for the United States was about 9,000.

Machine learning, personal devices and computing, and computer vision were categories that had the highest number of patents received, based on technology, application, or field. Among the United States, China, Japan, and South Korea, inventors with addresses in China had the highest number of patents in all three categories.

Patents for climate change mitigation in energy generation, transmission, and distribution account for the highest number of patents in technologies for climate change mitigation and adaptation issued by the Patent and Trademark Office.

In technologies for environmental sustainability, the state of New Mexico has the highest degree of specialization in patents for renewable energy generation and storage among all states, based on inventor addresses within the U.S.

The top three counties in 2022 for trademark intensity are Sheridan County in Wyoming, followed by Teton County, also in Wyoming, and then by New York County in New York State.

Worldwide, venture capital investments ranged between $300 billion and $400 billion between 2018 and 2020. In 2021, however, these investments experienced an unprecedented boom. Global venture investments almost doubled between 2020 and 2021, reaching an all-time high of more than $740 billion. This historic increase in 2021 was followed by a decrease to about $540 billion in 2022, a decline of 27%.

Datasets released as public use files with the report provides more than twenty consecutive years of patent and trademark data. Patent and Trademark Office data covers country, state, and county patent counts for dozens of technology categories. Trademark data cover county level trademarks for ten categories of products and services.