2014年获得技术专利最多的8大公司

    5. 微软

    专利数量：2829项

    代表性专利：“基于GUI的任务的自动批处理”

    国家：美国

    微软连续第二年稳居第五位。微软发言人称，为了维护一款突破型产品——运动体感设备Kinect，该公司“已提交了近600项专利申请，以保护与这款设备相关的知识产权。”我们从微软的主要专利中，挑选出一项旨在简化计算机重复操作的专利。例如，你可能想要调整数百张数码照片的尺寸。这项专利可让计算机自觉感知用户的意图，并自动完成这一过程——用户不需要学习如何编写脚本代码。与IBM相同，这家软件与电子产品公司的大部分专利均与电子数字数据处理即计算机相关。

    5. Microsoft

    Patents earned: 2,829

    Representative patent: "Automatic Batching of GUI-based Tasks"

    Country: United States

    Microsoft MSFT -0.14% held steady for another year in fifth place. Safeguarding one of its breakthrough products—the motion sensing Kinect—the company "has filed nearly 600 patents to protect intellectual property related to the device," says a company spokesperson. For Microsoft's featured patent, we picked one that aims to lessen the hassle of performing repetitive actions on a computer. Say, for instance, you would like to resize hundreds of digital photos. The patent outlines a way for the computer to intuit your intentions and automate the process—without you having to learn how to script a single line of code. Most of the software and electronics company's patents fall into the bucket of electrical digital data processing, a.k.a. computers—just as IBM's do.