Enterprises with The Most Patent Applications for Privacy-preserving Computation Technologies(Top 100)

IPR Daily

2022-03-22 12:25:50

Published by IPR Daily, incoPat

Data source: incoPat

Reference data: the number of open patent applications for privacy-preserving computation technology

Closing date: March 8th 2022

In the past few years, greatest importance has been attached to data security. As “Data Security Law of the People’s Republic of China”, “ Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China”, and other laws relating to data regulation take effect, China has ushered in a era when personal data protection and enterprise data compliance are facing new challenges. It has become a pressing issue needed to be addressed that how to remove data barriers and aggregate data from different fields safely, without the violation of data privacy. And it is under this circumstance that privacy-enhancing computation technologies emerge, triggering a wave of related technologies being commercialized. Privacy-preserving computation is a series of information technology aiming to conduct data analysis with the precondition that raw data won’t be leaked by the providers, so as to guarantee the data can be used legally but not disseminated haphazardly during circulation and integration. As one of the core technologies that empowering data utilization, privacy-enhancing computation will become the infrastructure of the market of data services, facilitating data transaction and protecting data privacy. Therefore, we decided to launch a statistical analysis on the number of open patent applications for privacy-enhancing computation technology filed before March 8st 2022.

Based on the study, a list of the Top 100 enterprises that have most patent applications came out.

As mentioned before, the technology patent applications included in our analysis and counted in the following leaderboard are those can be used to finish data analysis only if data breach is prevented from being caused by providers, so that data can be exchanged and integrated in a legal and safe manner. The patent applications cover Homomorphic Encryption, Secure Muldi-Party Computation, Dfferential Privacy, Federated Learning, Trusted Execution Environment, Zero-Knowledge Proof, and AI Privacy. Here, the parties making the list have had the patent applications filed before March 8 2022. Most of the top 10 are Chinese or American companies. 8 of the 10 lodges over 200 patent applications, among which, Ant Group wins a big lead with 1152 patent applications. It is also the second time that the company has ranked first since last year, followed by Ping An Insurance(423), Microsoft(374), Alibaba(313), IBM(252), Huawei(206), STATE GRID(206), Webank(204).

rank	company	country/organization/region	Number of patents （applications approved before March 8 2022）
1	Ant Group	China	1152
2	Ping An Insurance	China	423
3	Microsoft	the U.S.	374
4	Alibaba	China	313
5	IBM	the U.S.	252
6	Huawei	China	206
7	STATE GRID	China	206
8	Webank	China	204
9	Intel	the U.S.	180
10	Samsung	Korea	154
11	Tencent	China	139
12	Google	the U.S.	135
13	JDT	China	88
14	Apple	the U.S.	80
15	China Southern Power Grid	China	76
16	Baidu	China	72
17	Inspur	China	70
18	Facebook	the U.S.	66
19	CETC	China	66
20	Philips	Netherlands	65
21	Baidu Holdings Limited	China	60
22	ICBC	China	56
23	VISA	the U.S.	56
24	China Mobie	China	56
25	HUA KONG TSINGJIAO	China	55
26	JPMorgan Chase	the U.S.	54
27	Thomson	the U.S.	53
28	HYPERCHAIN	China	51
29	OneTrust	the U.S.	50
30	Sony	Japan	49
31	LG	Korea	47
32	Accenture	Ireland	47
33	Bank of China	China	46
34	Mitsubishi Electric	Japan	45
35	NEC	Japan	44
36	McAee	the U.S.	43
37	ZTE	China	42
38	Capital One	the U.S.	41
39	Nokia	Finland	41
40	OPPO	China	37
41	Bank of America	the U.S.	35
42	Qihoo 360	China	34
43	Intuit	the U.S.	33
44	Dataqin	China	33
45	Clustar	China	33
46	ROBERT BOSCH	Germany	32
47	SAP SE	Germany	31
48	Matrixelement	China	30
49	HP	the U.S.	30
50	REBORN QUANTUM	China	29
51	AT & T	the U.S.	29
52	Qualcomm	the U.S.	29
53	China Unionpay	China	27
54	Nuance	the U.S.	26
55	LeapYear	the U.S.	25
56	Ping An Pratt & Whitney	China	25
57	China Unicom	China	25
58	NTT	Japan	25
59	Gree	China	24
60	Security First	the U.S.	23
61	WONDERSOFT	China	22
62	TCS	India	22
63	NortonLifeLock	the U.S.	20
64	Panasonic	Japan	20
65	Cognitive Scale	the U.S.	19
66	Changhong	China	19
67	DAS Security	China	19
68	Lenovo	China	18
69	Tongdun	China	18
70	Wipro	India	18
71	XNET	China	18
72	QI-ANXIN	China	18
73	SVB	the U.S.	18
74	CCB International	China	17
75	Watchdata	China	17
76	Cisco	the U.S.	17
77	StradVision	Korea	17
78	PayPal	the U.S.	17
79	Morgan Stanley	the U.S.	17
80	Ericsson	Sweden	16
81	Private Identity	the U.S.	16
82	Information & Data Security Solutions	China	15
83	CCB	China	15
84	China Telecom	China	15
85	LIANRONG FINTECH	China	15
86	Inpher	the U.S.	15
87	CERNET	China	14
88	Motorola Mobility	the U.S.	14
89	BlackBerry Limited	Canada	14
90	Intertrust	the U.S.	14
91	AISINO CORPORATION	China	14
92	MININGLAMP Technology	China	14
93	Alcatel-Lucent	France	14
94	Platon Co.，Limited	China	13
95	KDDI	Japan	13
96	Hikvision	China	13
97	MEGVII	China	13
98	TCL	China	13
99	Fujitsu	Japan	13
100	Grey Market Labs	the U.S.	12

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The geographical location of the enterprises

Companies on the list come from 13 different countries, organizations or regions. Among them, Chinese firms account for 39%, followed by the U.S. firms(37%), the Japanese firms(9%), the Korean firms(4%), the German firms(2%), and India firms(2%). While the remaining places are respectively taken up by the companies from France, Iceland, British, Ireland, Netherlands, Canada, and Finland(pictured)

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data source：incoPat

Illustration: The leaderboard is based on the number of the open patent applications for privacy-preserving computation technologies approved before March 8 2022. Again, Privacy-preserving computation is the information technology aiming to conduct data analysis with the precondition that raw data won’t be leaked by the providers, and thus data can be used properly but not disseminated haphazardly during circulation and integration. The patnet applications acknowledged by this study are those originally filed by a company and its affiliated companies hold by the same shareholders, or those transferred to a company and its affiliated companies hold by the same shareholders. All patent applications have been approved by World Intellectual Property Organization, European Patent Office or the authorities of the following 15 countries: China, the U.S., France, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Spain, British, New Zealand, Mexico, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Portugal and Finland. This list, however, did not eliminate the duplicate data caused by a case where the company is the applicant as well as the transferor. Enterprises whose patent applications lodged in the same number are ranked on the basis of the search result in this list.

And this list is only for reference.