* A patent family consists of patent filings whose grant covers a specific invention in given countries (translated from English).
The data exclude patent applications valid only in China.
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Main countries holding patents in AI and machine learning 2016-2018
This chart shows the countries where the highest number of patents in artificial intelligence and machine learning were published from 2016 to 2018, according to data from Cipher. The United States had the highest number of patents published in these fields (more than in 2018).
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