WIPO patent-family counts by inventor location; China led with 38,210 families.
Generative AI patent origins are measured by WIPO patent families published from 2014 to 2023. The rows rank inventor locations using WIPO counts, with reported shares used only as source context. China led with 38,210 patent families, followed by the United States with 6,276 and the Republic of Korea with 4,155. The scope is generative AI patent families, not every artificial-intelligence patent family.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 38,210 | 2014–2023 |
| 2 | United States | 6,276 | 2014–2023 |
| 3 | Republic of Korea | 4,155 | 2014–2023 |
| 4 | Japan | 3,409 | 2014–2023 |
| 5 | India | 1,350 | 2014–2023 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 714 | 2014–2023 |
| 7 | Germany | 708 | 2014–2023 |
Source 1: World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher: World Intellectual Property Organization
Dataset/table: Figures 17a and 17b; GenAI patent-family total
Units: patent families; percent
Date checked: 2026-05-24
Evidence: Supports WIPO GenAI patent-family counts and source-reported shares by inventor location.
Source 2: OECD
Publisher: OECD
Dataset/table: AI patent PCT shares by country
Units: percent
Date checked: 2026-05-24
Evidence: Provides a broad-AI cross-check with country shares but not raw country counts in the accessible source.
This is a generative AI patent-family scope, not the full universe of artificial-intelligence patents. Source-reported shares are kept as context; the main visual uses raw counts.
Used WIPO’s generative AI patent landscape report for patent-family counts by inventor location. The graphic emphasizes raw counts and multiples because inventor-location attribution can involve source-specific counting rules.
Rows, source-reported shares and total dataset values come from the same WIPO report.
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