In two years, IBM quantum computing invention patents increased by 769, Tencent increased 45.5 times
Recently, IPRdaily and incoPat Innovation Index Research Center jointly released the "2022 Update! Global Quantum Computing Technology Invention Patent Ranking (TOP100)", which ranks the number of invention patent applications in the field of quantum computing disclosed worldwide as of October 18, 2022.
Global Quantum Computing Technology Invention Patent Ranking (TOP100) in 2020
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Global Quantum Computing Technology Invention Patent Ranking in 2022 (TOP100)
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The top 100 companies in the list mainly come from 18 countries and regions, with the United States accounting for 40%, China for 15% and Japan for 11%. Among them, IBM, a technology company from the United States, ranked first with 1,323 patents, while Google, a US technology company, and D-Wave, a Canadian quantum computing company, ranked second and third with 762 and 501 patents respectively.
Recently, IPRdaily and incoPat Innovation Index Research Center jointly released the "2022 Update! Global Quantum Computing Technology Invention Patent Ranking (TOP100)", which ranks the number of invention patent applications in the field of quantum computing disclosed worldwide as of October 18, 2022.
Global Quantum Computing Technology Invention Patent Ranking (TOP100) in 2020
http://www.iprdaily.cn/article_26023.html
Global Quantum Computing Technology Invention Patent Ranking in 2022 (TOP100)
http://www.iprdaily.cn/article_32536.html
The top 100 companies in the list mainly come from 18 countries and regions, with the United States accounting for 40%, China for 15% and Japan for 11%. Among them, IBM, a technology company from the United States, ranked first with 1,323 patents, while Google, a US technology company, and D-Wave, a Canadian quantum computing company, ranked second and third with 762 and 501 patents respectively.
While the landscape has remained largely unchanged, there have been some slight changes. For example, Native Quantum climbed past Intel to sixth and Google climbed past D-Wave to second. Northrop Grumman and D-Wave have declined significantly, growing by only 6% and 17%, respectively.
Founded in 1999, D-Wave is the world's first pure quantum computing company and has a long-standing lead over its competitors in the number of patents it invents. As we stretch the clock, we can see that D-Wave's decline has become more pronounced in recent years. The company was also high on the list in 2019, with 1.4 times the number of patents than IBM. But it was overtaken by IBM the following year, and this year it was left far behind by Google, which was second.
D-Wave has successfully gone public this year, but its share price has fallen by more than 60% in the last month. Although the low share price has a difficult profitability factor, compared with the other two quantum computing companies IonQ, Rigetti's share price trend, D-Wave also fell much more.
D-Wave stock price trend
Judging from the capital market performance, investors may have less confidence in D-Wave's quantum annealing technology. As we know, quantum annealing system is a dedicated quantum computer, so the prospects may be limited compared to a general-purpose quantum computer based on gates. This is the main reason for D-Wave's decision to develop a gate-model quantum computer. The slow patent growth in recent years may also be related to the fact that they are spreading their resources to the gate system. the development progress of D-Wave gate system may affect the future stock price trend.
03Continued strength of US companies
By geography, the competitive landscape is also largely unchanged. 2020, the top 100 companies on the list are mainly from 13 countries and regions, with the U.S. accounting for 43%, Japan for 14% and China for 12%. 2022, the top 100 companies on the list are mainly from 18 countries and regions, with the U.S. accounting for 40%, China for 15% and Japan for 11%.
The 40 U.S. companies accounted for a total of 3,989 invention patents, accounting for 61% of the total number of Top 100 companies, a figure that will also be 61% in 2020. China, on the other hand, increased from 153 cases in 12 companies to 804 cases in 15 companies, an increase of 4.25 times, and the proportion of the total increased from 4.7% to 12%.
As can be seen, the U.S. is very strong, thanks largely to the strength of U.S. technology giants in the field of quantum computing. In particular, the industry leader IBM, as of October 18, 2022, quantum computing invention patents have exceeded 1,000, more than the second place Google and the third place D-Wave combined. It has increased from 554 to 1,323, a growth rate of 140%. Even the number of patents from two years ago can be ranked ahead of D-Wave this year. Not only the total number of patents ranked first, but also the increment of 769 ranked first.
The biggest achievement of IBM in two years is the release of the quantum computing technology roadmap, and all on time to meet their proposed milestones. Last year IBM launched 127 quantum bit chips, and this year that number will increase to 433.
04Chinese companies have bright spots, but the overall gap remains
According to the IPRdaily list, there are 15 Chinese companies on the list this year, with a total of 804 invention patents, of which 234 by Hongyuan Quantum ranked first in China, while Baidu.com and Longchao ranked second and third in China with 186 and 95 respectively. The most surprising is Tencent Technology, which only had 2 patents in the list two years ago, but exploded to 93 this year, with a growth rate of 45.5 times, ranking first among all the companies in the list.
Since 2021, Tencent quantum computing has experienced rapid development. in October 2021, Tencent Quantum Lab implemented a fast, high-fidelity, easily scalable superconducting quantum bit initialization scheme. in May 2022, it also open-sourced and released the quantum simulation software framework TensorCircuit: the simulation efficiency has achieved an order of magnitude improvement, and for specific tasks it can simulate hundreds of quantum bits for very large systems for specific tasks.
Although Chinese companies have a lot of highlights in quantum computing patents, and the proportion of the total number of TOP100 companies has increased from 4.7% to 12%, the gap with US companies is still large. 60% of the patents for quantum computing inventions among TOP100 companies come from US companies, and this pattern is not expected to change in the near future.
Previously, Photon Box analyzed the source of this gap in "Analysis of the Top 100 Quantum Computing Patents: Where does the gap between the US and China come from? the source of this gap has been analyzed. The main reason is that U.S. patents mainly come from enterprises, while Chinese patents are mainly from research institutes, which is why China seems to have a big gap with the U.S. at the enterprise level.
This also leads to a weaker ability to translate R&D into products in China than in the US. At that time, Photon Box called for "China's development of quantum computing must focus on the ability to transform products, taking into account the needs of end users, and must not let quantum computing be put on the shelf."
At present, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Intel and other technology giants are the main force in the development of quantum computing in the United States, as can be seen from the patent distribution. However, the leading Chinese patents are mainly from research institutions such as the Chinese University of Science and Technology (CSUST), and it is from CSUST that Hongyuan Quantum emerged as a company, hence the leading patent position. In other words, our tech giants need to cheer up!
With the global public patent ranking of quantum technology inventions
