On January 22, Ant Group released the "2023 White Paper on Intellectual Property of Ant Group". According to the white paper, as of the end of 2023, the Group applied for 32,459 patents globally, of which 22,102 had been authorized, invention patents accounted for 95.77%, and foreign patent applications accounted for 58.75%.

In the over 32,000 technology patents, applications in the three major technical fields of security technology, blockchain, and artificial intelligence rank among the top 3. Among them, technologies such as security technology and blockchain that Ant has been cultivating for years have ranked first in the world in terms of global patent applications for consecutive years, showing its continuous investment and strength in the field of digital root technology. The number of artificial intelligence patent applications exceeds 3,000, followed closely by the number share of applications.

It is pointed out in the white paper that Ant Group attaches great importance to the international layout of intellectual property rights, more than 10% of the important patents have been laid out internationally in the patents it applied for, with the layout covering over 40 countries or regions, including the United States, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Japan, South Korea, India, and other target markets.

From Weiyi.com

January 22nd, 2024