[…] Going by GenAI patents filed over the past 10 years, China’s inventors are far ahead of competitors in every other country. A new report from the World Intellectual Property Organization shows some 38,210 applications emanating from the Middle Kingdom between 2014 and 2023. The U.S. is a distant second with 6,276, followed by South Korea (4,155), Japan (3,409), India (1,350), the U.K. (714) and Germany (708). The report considers generative AI to encompass not only large language models but also generative adversarial networks (GANs), variational autoencoders (VAEs) and diffusion models. Don’t be surprised when a new wave of GenAI patents inundates the field in the near future, largely on the strength of ChatGPT, the success of which “has driven innovation into a wide range of applications,” the report authors point out. “A future update study at a later date should be able to visualize this development—perhaps by using GenAI itself to do the work.” The report is extensive and unpacks a lot of data, some of which involves healthcare. Pymnts.com does a nice job contextualizing and summarizing.  […]