Samsung Electronics kept its position as second biggest intellectual property rights registerer in the U.S. for 12th year in a row with 4,143 patents, following only IBM in the top position.
Quartz, quoting materials released by the Office of U.S. Patents this year, said IBM maintained first place with 5,797 patent rights, followed by Intel in third place with 2,064, Google in fourth place with 1,775 and Microsoft in fifth place 1,673. Apple took sixth with just 1,556 intellectual property rights registered this year based between Jan. 1 to Aug. 1.
The Korean electronics giant also came in second in the number of intellectual property rights registered accrued from 2010 totaling 44,301, following IBM with 53,926. Microsoft came in third with 22,304 cases followed by Intel with 15,187 in fourth and Google with 14,900 cases in fifth. Apple had only 13,183 cases, one/third of what Samsung Electronics had registered.
Samsung Electronics has been turning the results of its R&D activities into intellectual property rights, with its R&D investments coming to 14.8 trillion won last year, breaking down to 5,629 patents at home and 15,193 cases abroad.
An official of Samsung Electronics said the company registered 5,518 intellectual property rights in the U.S. last year, taking second place after IBM for 11 years in a row since 2006. Since 1984 when the company began registering its IPR, over 110,000 cases were registered by the company.
Samsung registered most of its intellectual property patents in the U.S. to fight against various lawsuits over IPAs, especially in such areas as smartphones, smart TVs, memory systems and LSI, among others, mostly over the core areas of its IPRs and related technologies.
IPRs have been effective in restraining the conflicts arising out of the similar technologies and IPRs themselves. The company has also been securing as many IPRs as possible as they have been of great help in maintaining Samsung’s competitive edge over its competitors and also when it ventures into new businesses.
Due to a rich legacy of mobile innovation, Samsung is uniquely positioned to offer a mobile experience and solutions that seamlessly integrate with, and power, its devices. As the heart of Samsung’s offerings, Bixby’s intelligent interface was designed to power users’ devices, apps and services, allowing easy control of smartphones and beyond.
With full voice capabilities in English, Bixby can help users get more out of their connected lives. With voice capabilities, Galaxy S8 and S8+ users can easily activate voice commands to get more done in their day simply and efficiently.
Users can ask Bixby to complete simple tasks, like turning on the flashlight or taking a selfie, or complex tasks, like “remind me to pick up milk at the grocery store,” or “find photos I took in Spain and create an album called ‘Vacation.’” At launch, Bixby will be fully integrated across core Samsung apps, so almost anything you could do with touch or typing, you can now do with your voice, including multi-step, and cross-app requests.
Support for additional native and third-party apps will be available via Bixby Labs, which includes select applications that are offering preliminary integration with Bixby.
Because Bixby is deeply integrated into the device rather than in a standalone application - users can easily switch between voice, touch or text commands, providing a unique experience over current voice assistants on the market.
“We are dedicated to creating the best possible user experience for our customers. That’s why we designed Bixby it’s an intelligent interface that allows you to do more things with your phone.
We want to offer a truly multimodal experience, so that users can interact with their phone in many different ways through sight, touch, typing or voice all of the most natural ways to interact with the world, available on your smartphone,” says Injong Rhee, Executive Vice President, Head of R&D, Software and Services of Mobile Communications Business, Samsung Electronics. “And as the Bixby ecosystem grows, it will use its completeness, context awareness and cognitive tolerance to evolve from a smartphone interface to the interface for your life.”
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