Portfolio comparison
International Business Machines Corp vs Sony Corp
Side-by-side portfolio analysis — patents indexed, year ranges, and activity timeline.
Company A
International Business Machines Corp
Patents indexed
13
Year range
1968 – 2023
Most recent
2023
softwaretelecommunicationsconsumer_electronicsai_mlsemiconductors
Top Patents13 enriched
US 6370526· 2002
Smart Ranking of Emails and Files Based on How You Click
US 9405582· 2016
How Computers Automatically Adjust Tasks to Run Faster in Data Centers
US 6424946· 2002
How Computers Automatically Label Different Speakers in Audio Recordings
Activity by Decade
1960s1
1970s1
1990s1
2000s4
2010s5
2020s1
Company B
Sony Corp
Patents indexed
2
Year range
2018 – 2019
Most recent
2019
consumer_electronicsai_mltelecommunicationsgamingrobotics
Top Patents2 enriched
US 10003680· 2018
How Sony's Smart Glasses Share Content During Voice Calls
US 10282665· 2019
How AI Agents Learn to Pick the Best Future Actions
Activity by Decade
2010s2
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