INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
-- second highest contributor to company's global record of 9,100 patents in US in 2018 -- with nearly half in fields of artificial
intelligence (AI), cloud computing, cyber security, blockchain and quantum computing
One of patents filed from country went to IBM inventors Shivali Agarwal, Gaargi B Dasgupta, Shripad J Nadgowda and Tapan K Nayak, company
said in a statement on Tuesday.They developed an AI-based approach for structured representation and classification of noisy and
unstructured data in tickets used in service delivery.Ticket analysis helps create problem diagnostics, prediction of outages and prevention
AI patents included "Project Debater" that, with use of machine learning, can debate humans on complex topics -- identifying evidence such
security patents including "Cognitive Security against Voice Phishing Activity" -- an AI-powered security approach to combat voice phishing
activity.IBM was also awarded patents related to internet of things (IoT) including "Water Temperature Mapping and Monitoring to Protect
Marine and Freshwater Life".IBM inventors received more than 2,000 Cloud computing and over 1,600 AI patents.The new patents were granted to
a diverse group of more than 8,500 IBM inventors in 47 US states and 48 countries.
