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Era in Patents

The 2020s

GPT-class models, mRNA vaccines, and the first commercial quantum systems all matured under patent within a few short years. Generative AI architectures, GLP-1 therapeutics, solid-state battery chemistries, and reusable launch systems define the decade's filings. These are the patents being granted right now — the ones that will shape the next twenty years of how we compute, treat disease, and move energy.

By year

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Top patents · 17 ranked by influence

20202029

US 12564871 · 2026 · ASM IP HOLDING BV

A Fixture for Cleaning Showerheads with Multiple Separate Chambers

US 12324579 · 2025 · CILAG GMBH INT

Surgical Stapler Battery Health Check During Operation

US 12471982 · 2025 · CILAG GMBH INT

Surgical Tool That Combines Energy Treatment and Stapling

US 12004743 · 2024 · CILAG GMBH INT

Staple cartridge comprising a sloped wall

US 12516413 · 2026 · ASM IP HOLDING BV

Gas-phase chemical reactor and method of using same

US 11564686 · 2023 · CILAG GMBH INT

Surgical shaft assemblies with flexible interfaces

US 11918209 · 2024 · CILAG GMBH INT

Real-Time Surgical Instrument Status on Live Video During Operations

US 11617575 · 2023 · CILAG GMBH INT

Motor-driven surgical cutting instrument

US 11622766 · 2023 · CILAG GMBH INT

Empty clip cartridge lockout

US 11517325 · 2022 · CILAG GMBH INT

Closed loop feedback control of motor velocity of a surgical stapling and cutting instrument based on measured displacement distance traveled over a specified time interval

US 10702600 · 2020 · ModernaTx Inc

Betacoronavirus mRNA vaccine

US 10824959 · 2020 · Amazon Technologies Inc

Explainers for machine learning classifiers

US 10607134 · 2020

Artificially intelligent systems, devices, and methods for learning and/or using an avatar's circumstances for autonomous avatar operation

US 11295225 · 2022 · D Wave Systems Inc

Superconducting quantum processor and method of operating same

US 10540437 · 2020

System and interface for electronic communication generation and tracking

US 11727263 · 2023 · Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Method of updating sentence generation model and sentence generating apparatus

US 10559047 · 2020 · NCR Corp

Systems and methods for facilitating closing of a check

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