Mapping The Patent Landscape Of Medical Machine Learning

This article discusses the patenting activity for Machine and Machine Learning (MML) technologies at the USPTO and EPO over the past 20 years. The results show a substantial upward trend in MML patents since 2014, with the number of MML patent documents increasing from 264 in 2013 to 2,661 in 2021, corresponding to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.48%. The relative proportion of granted applications to the total number of applications indicates that the patent allowance rate has increased from 48% in 2007 to 64% in 2012.