Neel Mehta
IBM“™s inventors received a record 5,896 U.S. patents in 2010, marking the company’s 18th consecutive year as the world“™s most inventive company.
IBM became the first company to be granted as many as 5,000 U.S. patents in a single year. More than 7,000 IBM inventors living in 46 different U.S. states and 20 countries contributed to the 2010 patent tally.
IBM received patents for a range of inventions in 2010, such as a system for predicting traffic conditions based on information exchanged over short-range wireless communications; a technique that analyzes data from sensors in computer hard drives to enable faster emergency response in the event of earthquakes and other disasters; and a technology advancement for enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light instead of electrical signals, which can deliver increased performance of computing systems.
