The global healthcare industry experienced a 7% decline in the number of cybersecurity-related patent applications in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter. The total number of cybersecurity-related grants dropped by 12% in Q3 2022, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Cybersecurity in Healthcare – Patenting Activity in Q3 2022.
Notably, the number of cybersecurity-related patent applications in the healthcare industry was 314 in Q3 2022, versus 336 in the prior quarter.
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Analysis of patenting activity by companies shows that Patientory filed the most cybersecurity patents within the healthcare industry in Q3 2022. The company filed 5 cybersecurity-related patents in the quarter, compared with 0 in the previous quarter. It was followed by Hitachi with 4 cybersecurity patent filings, Canon (3 filings), and Blockchain Labs (3 filings) in Q3 2022.
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The largest share of cybersecurity related patent filings in the healthcare industry in Q3 2022 was in China with 40%, followed by the US (21%) and South Korea (7%). The share represented by China was 10% higher than the 31% share it accounted for in Q2 2022.
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