IBM Shatters U.S. Patent Record with 5,000 patents in 2010
IBM today announced that its inventors received a record 5,896 U.S. patents in 2010, marking the 18th consecutive year it has topped the list of the worlds most inventive companies. IBM became the first company to be granted as many as 5,000 U.S. patents in a single year. It took IBM’s inventors more than 50 years to receive their first 5,000 patents after the company was established in 1911. More than 7,000 IBM inventors residing in 46 different U.S. states and 29 countries generated the company’s record-breaking 2010 patent tally. Inventors residing outside the U.S. contributed to more than 22% of the company’s patents in 2010, representing a 27% increase over international inventor contributions during the last three years.
U.S. Patent #7,790,495: Optoelectronic device with germanium photodetector – This invention supports the CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics chip technology IBM introduced in December 2010. The technology, which integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enables computer chips to communicate using pulses of light (instead of electrical signals), and is the culmination of a 10-year research effort across IBM’s global research labs. Patent #7,790,495 was granted to IBM inventors Solomon Assefa, Walter Bedell, Yurii Vlasov and Fengnian Xia.
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