The global automotive industry experienced a 26% decline in the number of artificial intelligence-related patent applications in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter. The total number of artificial intelligence-related grants rose by 5% in Q3 2022, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Artificial Intelligence in Automotive – Patenting Activity in Q3 2022.

Notably, the number of artificial intelligence-related patent applications in the automotive industry was 8,506 in Q3 2022, versus 11,539 in the prior quarter.

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The top five companies accounted for 4% of patenting activity

Analysis of patenting activity by companies shows that International Business Machines filed the most artificial intelligence patents within the automotive industry in Q3 2022. The company filed 229 artificial intelligence-related patents in the quarter, compared with 316 in the previous quarter. It was followed by Robert Bosch Stiftung with 148 artificial intelligence patent filings, Alphabet (102 filings), and Microsoft (84 filings) in Q3 2022.

Patenting activity was driven by China with a 31% share of total patent filings

The largest share of artificial intelligence related patent filings in the automotive industry in Q3 2022 was in China with 31%, followed by the US (30%) and South Korea (8%). The share represented by China was 1% lower than the 32% 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.